20009 Joerao is circling the sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
An animation showing the orbit of asteroid 20009 Joerao , named after Space.com contributor Joseph Michael Rao.chaser has served as an instructor and guest lecturer at New York's Hayden Planetarium. He also write about astronomy for Natural History magazine, the Farmers' Almanac and other publications, including Space.com, for which he serves as skywatching columnist.
Space.com caught up with Rao to learn how it feels to have an asteroid named after him and to learn more about the distant space rock.on July 18, 1991 by astronomer Henry E. Holt, who was likely using the 48-inch Samuel Oschin Telescope developed for sky surveys. An asteroid can be named for someone or something, but the process must begin with someone or some organization writing a short citation, listing a few pertinent facts about the potential moniker that will be attached to an asteroid. That citation will then be judged by a 15-person committee from the International Astronomical Union. Edwin and Imelda Aguirre
So they wrote up a citation and passed it on to Mr. Daniel Green of the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams in Cambridge, Massachusetts, who in turn forwarded it to the IAU committee for consideration. dated on Monday, July 3
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