(34775) Zinzi Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 August 2001 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Angelo Zinzi (b. 1979) is an Italian scientist and serves as a Staff Technologist and a group coordinator at the Space Science Data Center of the Italian Space Agency, Rome. He is an expert in space mission data reduction and analysis and is the developer of the MATISSE web tool. He is a team member of the DART/LICIACube mission.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 36), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zinzi is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zinzi is 3.15 au from the Sun and 3.94 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34775 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 QL263 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.38 km (#6,245 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0610 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.26 |
| Orbital period | 5.79 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.15 – 3.30 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0244 |
| Inclination | 8.71° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.17 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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