(69848) Thomaspetit Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 September 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.
Thomas Petit (b. 1981) is a French amateur astronomer living in Czechia. He is a founding member of APO_Team, which remotely operates a telescope in the Atacama desert in Chile, and also 2SPOT, an amateur association specializing in spectroscopy. Thomas is the webmaster of a website which offers useful and practical information about planetary nebulae.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #9, 17), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Thomaspetit is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Thomaspetit is 3.02 au from the Sun and 3.15 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 69848 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SQ35 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.4 km (#4,348 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0650 |
| Rotation period | 8.64 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.55 |
| Orbital period | 5.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.35 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0932 |
| Inclination | 16.0° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.79 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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