(195998) Skipwilson Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 September 2002 by R. Matson at Haleakala.
Ivan “Skip” Wilson (b. 1941) is a pioneer of systematic meteorite recovery. He has found over 100 distinct meteorites in the blowouts of eastern New Mexico since 1966, and he witnessed and recovered the 1998 Portales Valley fall. He has coauthored papers about meteorite accumulation rates and pairing.Naming citation (20091004/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Skipwilson is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Skipwilson is 3.02 au from the Sun and 3.88 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 195998 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 RO235 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.91 km (#10,783 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0960 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.16 |
| Orbital period | 5.49 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.11 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.48 – 3.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.201 |
| Inclination | 13.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.54 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.