(20765) Yifeijiao Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Yifei Jiao (b. 1998) is a Chinese planetary scientist currently at University of California at Santa Cruz. He works on impact physics and asteroid dynamics. He showed that the near-Earth asteroid (469219) Kamoʻoalewa was likely a spallation fragment originally ejected from the young Giordano Bruno impact crater on the Moon.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 37), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yifeijiao is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yifeijiao is 2.62 au from the Sun and 1.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20765 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JC40 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.98 |
| Orbital period | 4.07 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.55 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.45 – 2.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0386 |
| Inclination | 14.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.47 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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