(45492) Slawomirbreiter Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 January 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Sławomir Breiter (b. 1963) is a professor at the Poznań Astronomical Observatory in Poland. His work focuses on celestial mechanics, including contributions to the development of analytical and semi-analytical theories of the asteroidal YORP effect and the study of orbital dynamics.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #17, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Slawomirbreiter is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Slawomirbreiter is 2.72 au from the Sun and 3.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 45492 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AD241 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.23 km (#14,649 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.245 |
| Rotation period | 2.27 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.57 |
| Orbital period | 4.30 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.65 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.32 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.123 |
| Inclination | 14.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.36 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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