(16234) Bosse Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Angelique Bosse for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Bosse is a teacher at the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Bosse is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bosse is 2.25 au from the Sun and 2.41 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16234 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FR20 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.96 km (#15,312 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.461 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.29 |
| Orbital period | 3.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.35 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.67 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.133 |
| Inclination | 7.41° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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