(35768) Wendybauer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 May 1999 by CSS at Catalina.
Wendy Hagen Bauer (b. 1950) is a North American professor emerita of astronomy at Wellesley College, where she taught from 1979-2015. A dedicated educator, she taught classes ranging from upper level astronomy seminars on stars, to planetary geology.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-10-26), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Wendybauer is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Wendybauer is 2.98 au from the Sun and 2.16 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 35768 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 JR1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.34 km (#14,376 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.275 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.56 |
| Orbital period | 4.96 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.91 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.75 – 3.07 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0546 |
| Inclination | 3.44° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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