(26871) Tanezrouft Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 October 1993 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
The Tanezrouft Basin, a part of the Sahara Desert, lies just above the Tropic of Cancer, about 750 miles south of Algiers. An especially parched land with annual rainfall less than 0.2 inches, it is hyperarid, with very high temperatures and scarcity of vegetation. There are no permanent residents here, only occasional Tuareg nomads.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tanezrouft is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tanezrouft is 2.46 au from the Sun and 2.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 26871 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 TB38 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.73 km (#5,253 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0320 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.55 |
| Orbital period | 4.27 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 2.87 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0902 |
| Inclination | 5.33° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.39 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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