(215458) Yucun Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 August 2002 by NEAT at Palomar.
Yucun is located in Anji, Zhejiang Province, China, and was named “the Best Tourist Village” by the UN World Tourism Organization in 2021. The entire village is like a boat sailing in the vast sea of bamboo waves, green mountains and clear waters. The name was suggested by T. Chen, who discovered this minor planet in publicly-available archive data.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 4, #7, 10), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yucun is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yucun is 2.61 au from the Sun and 2.03 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 215458 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 PJ178 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.07 |
| Orbital period | 4.01 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.52 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.29 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0939 |
| Inclination | 4.24° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.31 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.