(50727) Aliceverett Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 March 2000 by CSS at Catalina.
Alice Everett (1865–1949) was a Scottish astronomer and engineer who began working as a computer on the Carte du Ciel project at the Greenwich Observatory in 1890. She spent five years in Potsdam, continuing to work on the Carte du Ciel, then spent a year at Vassar College. Later she became an engineer and she was a pioneer of television engineering.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #2, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Aliceverett is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Aliceverett is 2.90 au from the Sun and 3.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 50727 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EO147 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.26 km (#10,119 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.146 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.46 |
| Orbital period | 5.39 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.90 – 3.25 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0558 |
| Inclination | 10.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.91 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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