(6030) Zolensky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
As curator of interplanetary dust at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Michael Zolensky (b. 1955) has been at the forefront of understanding the origin of interplanetary dust particles, their relationship to carbonaceous chondrites and the processes that formed them on comets and minor planets.Naming citation (20020624/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zolensky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zolensky is 3.34 au from the Sun and 4.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6030 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EG36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.29 km (#5,551 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.205 |
| Rotation period | 3.59 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.72 |
| Orbital period | 5.59 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.15 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.94 – 3.36 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0665 |
| Inclination | 5.32° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.94 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 7 March 1981
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- (8796) Sonnett
- (8798) Tarantino
- (9278) Matera
- (9284) Juansanchez
- (9528) Kuppers
- (9923) Ronaldthiel
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