(166570) Adolftrager Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 September 2002 by KLENOT at Klet.
Adolf Träger (1888-1965) was a Czech painter, known for landscape paintings of the countryside of South Bohemia and the historical towns of České Budějovice and Český Krumlov. He was deeply concerned with preservation of historical buildings.Naming citation (20080321/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Adolftrager is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Adolftrager is 3.00 au from the Sun and 2.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 166570 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 RG118 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.72 km (#7,978 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0680 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 5.79 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.93 – 3.52 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0925 |
| Inclination | 6.55° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.94 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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