(6962) Summerscience Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 July 1990 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.
Every summer since 1959 a group of gifted high-school students has gathered for six weeks to study college-level science, observe selected minor planets and calculate their orbits in the Summer Science Program in Ojai, California.Naming citation (20020724/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Summerscience is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Summerscience is 2.58 au from the Sun and 3.25 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6962 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 OT |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.67 km (#13,518 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.300 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 3.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.29 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.95 – 2.63 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.148 |
| Inclination | 6.72° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.953 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.