(20091) Alfredoescalante Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Alfredo Escalante López (b. 1995) is a Spanish researcher at the European Space Astronomy Centre in Madrid. He supports geometry data navigation for Hera and all ESA planetary missions, focusing on optical navigation for small-body missions, using deep learning on comet and asteroid images from Rosetta and OSIRIS-REX.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 9), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Alfredoescalante is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alfredoescalante is 2.85 au from the Sun and 3.62 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20091 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 PK20 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.82 km (#10,978 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.159 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.87 |
| Orbital period | 4.78 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.84 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.76 – 2.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0255 |
| Inclination | 2.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Alfredo
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