(7494) Xiwanggongcheng Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 28 October 1995 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.

Named for the tenth anniversary of Project Hope (Xiwang Gongcheng), a non-profit social welfare program operated by the China Youth Development Foundation. The project was initiated on 1989 Oct. 30, with the aim of helping school dropouts in poverty-stricken areas return to school and finish primary education. Using contributions from people of all walks of life at home and abroad, more than 1.85 million children have been brought back to school and 6000 Hope Primary Schools have been built in the rural areas across the country. Project Hope has greatly promoted the development of elementary education in China's poor areas and has become China's most effective social welfare program in the 1990s.Naming citation (19990202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Xiwanggongcheng is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Xiwanggongcheng is 3.07 au from the Sun and 2.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	7494
Provisional designation	1995 UV48
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Rotation period	21.8 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.42
Orbital period	5.25 years
Semi-major axis	3.02 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.85 – 3.19 au
Eccentricity	0.0559
Inclination	8.12°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.87 au

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

Also discovered on 28 October 1995

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