(22724) Byatt Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Antonia Susan (“A. S.”) Byatt (b. 1936) is an English writer, well known for her novels and short stories. She is a winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction and became a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1999.Naming citation (20100130/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Byatt is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Byatt is 3.16 au from the Sun and 2.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22724 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SE59 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.8 km (#3,438 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0400 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.3 |
| Orbital period | 5.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.85 – 3.59 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.116 |
| Inclination | 2.83° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.84 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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