(13730) Willis Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Emily Kathleen Willis (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for her botany and zoology project. She attends the Rocky Mountain Middle School, Heber, Utah.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Willis is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Willis is 2.02 au from the Sun and 1.75 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13730 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 RE47 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.71 km (#15,830 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.418 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 3.54 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.97 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.153 |
| Inclination | 6.31° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.968 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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