(161092) Zsigmond Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 July 2002 by K. Sarneczky at Palomar.
Vilmos Zsigmond (b. 1930) is an Academy Award-winning Hungarian-American cinematographer who chronicled the events of the 1956 revolution in Budapest and escaped to Austria shortly afterward. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977.Naming citation (20100923/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zsigmond is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zsigmond is 3.29 au from the Sun and 4.18 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 161092 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 OL28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.74 km (#13,360 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0730 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.87 |
| Orbital period | 5.30 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.04 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.30 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0856 |
| Inclination | 4.83° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.