(20745) Sylvainlodiot Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Sylvain Lodiot (b. 1975) is a French engineer at the European Space Agency. He was the operations manager of the Rosetta spacecraft that successfully visited the comet 67P and supervises the operation of other small-body missions at ESA, in particular the Hera planetary defense mission.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 35), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sylvainlodiot is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sylvainlodiot is 2.74 au from the Sun and 3.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20745 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AS185 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.02 km (#7,612 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.226 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.97 |
| Orbital period | 4.35 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.67 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 3.20 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.199 |
| Inclination | 14.0° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.19 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Sylvain
All asteroids named after someone called Sylvain
Also discovered on 8 January 2000
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