(7817) Zibiturtle Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1988 by S. J. Bus at Cerro Tololo.
Elizabeth “Zibi” Turtle (b. 1967), a planetary scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, has contributed to the Galileo and Cassini projects, and her research has spanned the solar system from the ice shell on Jupiter II (Europa) to the geology of Saturn VI (Titan) and the mountains of Jupiter I (Io).Naming citation (20070402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zibiturtle is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zibiturtle is 2.84 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7817 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 RH10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.2 km (#3,984 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0580 |
| Spectral type | C |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.46 |
| Orbital period | 4.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.78 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.66 – 2.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0440 |
| Inclination | 0.558° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.64 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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- (5233) Nastes
- (5257) Laogonus
- (5395) Shosasaki
- (6443) Harpalion
- (6899) Nancychabot
- (7565) Zipfel
- (8482) Wayneolm
- (8642) Shawnkerry
- (8829) Buczkowski
- (9319) Hartzell
- (10296) Rominadisisto
More named asteroids discovered by S. J. Bus
- (2285) Ron Helin
- (2780) Monnig
- (2791) Paradise
- (2884) Reddish
- (2919) Dali
- (2980) Cameron
- (2981) Chagall
- (2990) Trimberger
- (3000) Leonardo
- (3029) Sanders
- (3030) Vehrenberg
- (3042) Zelinsky
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