(41004) Wolner Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 29 October 1999 by CSS at Catalina.

Catherine “Cat” Wallace Vaccaro Wolner (b. 1986) is an American scientific editor and writer. Wolner handles publications for the OSIRIS-REx and APEX missions to asteroids Bennu and Apophis, respectively, and coauthored the first atlas of an asteroid, Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #11, 12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Wolner is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Wolner is 2.52 au from the Sun and 1.77 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number41004
Provisional designation1999 UA13
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.06
Orbital period4.54 years
Semi-major axis2.74 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.49 – 3.00 au
Eccentricity0.0922
Inclination2.51°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.49 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Wallace

Also discovered on 29 October 1999

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