(31641) Cevasco Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 6 April 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Hannah Olivia Cevasco (b. 2000) is a finalist in the 2015 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for her medicine and health sciences project. She attends the St. Charles School, San Carlos, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-11-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Cevasco is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Cevasco is 2.66 au from the Sun and 3.10 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number31641
Provisional designation1999 GW34
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.74 km (#15,783 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.311
Rotation period2.66 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)15.02
Orbital period3.81 years
Semi-major axis2.44 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.12 – 2.75 au
Eccentricity0.130
Inclination1.22°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.14 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Hannah

Also discovered on 6 April 1999

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