(28884) Youngjunchoi Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 May 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Young-Jun Choi (b. 1969) is a planetary scientist at Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute (Daejeon, South Korea). He studies photometry and thermal models of Kuiper belt objects and is Co-I of DEEP-South, a project to observe asteroids and comets in the southern sky.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Youngjunchoi is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Youngjunchoi is 3.27 au from the Sun and 4.15 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28884 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 KA54 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.3 km (#4,432 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0660 |
| Rotation period | 25.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.64 |
| Orbital period | 5.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.10 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.90 – 3.29 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0627 |
| Inclination | 22.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.90 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Jun
All asteroids named after someone called Jun
Also discovered on 27 May 2000
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