(20221) Bektesevic Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 April 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Dino Bektešević (b. 1991) is a Croatian astronomer working at the DiRAC Institute and the University of Washington on developing advanced shift-and-stack techniques to discover faint trans-Neptunian objects in the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time. He earned his Ph.D. at the University of Washington in 2025.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 10), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bektesevic is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bektesevic is 3.42 au from the Sun and 2.54 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20221 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 HV8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.26 km (#10,114 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0770 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 5.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.09 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 3.42 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.105 |
| Inclination | 1.81° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.77 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.