(20783) Zurigray Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 September 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Zuri Gray (b. 1997) is a Spanish-Irish postdoctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki whose Ph.D. research was undertaken at Armagh Observatory and Planetarium. She specializes in polarimetric observations of small bodies, including asteroid (65803) Didymos, comet 67P, and the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 39), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Zurigray is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Zurigray is 2.27 au from the Sun and 2.60 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20783 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 RK55 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.85 km (#10,913 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.299 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.89 |
| Orbital period | 4.51 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.73 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.13 – 3.32 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.218 |
| Inclination | 7.75° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.13 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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