(31399) Susorney Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 December 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.

Hannah Susorney (b. 1991) is a former postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Bristol. She studies topography of asteroids and the role of impact cratering on the surface evolution of planetary bodies.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Susorney is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Susorney is 2.86 au from the Sun and 2.00 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number31399
Provisional designation1998 YF30
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter7.18 km (#7,435 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.177
Rotation period359 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)13.3
Orbital period4.17 years
Semi-major axis2.59 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.33 – 2.86 au
Eccentricity0.103
Inclination14.7°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.35 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Hannah

Also discovered on 24 December 1998

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