(44016) Jimmypage
Created | Updated Sep 26, 2004
Named after Jimmy Page, lead guitarist with the rock band Led Zeppelin, not much is known about minor planet 44016. It has been estimated at 6 to 14Km in diameter (3.7 - 8.7 miles), making it's surface area somewhere between 49 and 265 times less than that of B*lgium (25 to 133 less than that of Wales). It orbits on an elliptical path 332.4 Million Km to 458.9 Million Km from the sun, with an orbital period of 4.30 of your Earth years. It can be found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, and it's orbit is inclined by 11.3 degrees to the ecliptic plane (the plane of the earth's orbit about the sun).
A telescope is needed to see Jimmypage, as it's maximum brightness is only 1/5596 of the brightness of the faintest objects that can be seen with the naked eye.
