(5762) Wanke Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Heinrich Wänke (b. 1928), director emeritus of the Max-Planck-Institut für Chemie at Mainz, is a premier cosmochemist who first developed the 40Argon-39Argon method of dating meteoritic and lunar materials. He also has investigated the chemical composition and accretion history of the terrestrial planets.Naming citation (20020624/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Wanke is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Wanke is 2.46 au from the Sun and 2.62 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5762 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EG28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.99 km (#12,760 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.335 |
| Rotation period | 3.83 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.11 |
| Orbital period | 3.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.02 – 2.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.134 |
| Inclination | 4.83° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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