(19602) Austinminor Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 July 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Austin Lee Minor (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a middle school science competition, for his environmental sciences project. He attends the Hazelgrove Elementary School, Lee's Summit, Missouri.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Austinminor is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Austinminor is 2.40 au from the Sun and 2.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19602 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 NK42 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.64 km (#6,956 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0260 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.88 |
| Orbital period | 3.86 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.21 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.102 |
| Inclination | 2.44° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.20 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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