(28642) Zbarsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Samuel Zbarsky (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zbarsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zbarsky is 2.64 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28642 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FZ49 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.86 km (#17,177 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.734 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.91 |
| Orbital period | 3.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.36 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.07 – 2.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.122 |
| Inclination | 5.21° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.08 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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