(19738) Calinger Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Manetta Calinger mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Mt. De Chantal Visitation Academy, Wheeling, West Virginia.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Calinger is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Calinger is 1.98 au from the Sun and 1.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19738 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AS97 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.27 km (#14,551 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.314 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.2 |
| Orbital period | 3.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.86 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.184 |
| Inclination | 7.74° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.879 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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