(10698) Singer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Kelsi N. Singer (b. 1984) is a postdoctoral researcher at Southwest Research Institute (Boulder, Colorado) studying outer solar system icy satellites and the Kuiper belt population through the crater size distribution revealed by the New Horizons mission to the Pluto system.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Singer is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Singer is 2.05 au from the Sun and 2.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10698 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EJ43 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.81 |
| Orbital period | 3.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.59 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.117 |
| Inclination | 2.34° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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