(27584) Barbaravelez Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 October 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Barbara Velez mentored a finalist in the 2011 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle-school students. She teaches at the Academia del Perpetuo Socorro, San Juan, Puerto Rico.Naming citation (20111210/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Barbaravelez is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Barbaravelez is 3.12 au from the Sun and 3.49 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27584 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 UH99 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.38 km (#14,283 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.245 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.73 |
| Orbital period | 4.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.76 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.25 – 3.26 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.183 |
| Inclination | 4.63° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.27 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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