(32288) Terui Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 August 2000 by BATTeRS at Bisei SG Center.
Yoshihiro Terui (b. 1994) won the 2008 Space Day Award essay competition for students in junior high school with his essay “Is there extraterrestrial life?”. He attends the Daiichi Junior high School, Fuchu-shi, Tokyo.Naming citation (20091004/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Terui is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Terui is 3.23 au from the Sun and 4.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32288 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QN1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.46 km (#8,298 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.169 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.67 |
| Orbital period | 4.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.80 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.30 – 3.29 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.178 |
| Inclination | 9.87° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.33 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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