(15785) de Villegas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 August 1993 by E. W. Elst at Caussols.
Esteban Manuel de Villegas (1585-1669), a Spanish poet, became famous for his lyrical work Las Eréoticas (1618), setting with its purely formal poetry a precedent for neoclassism. The naming honors also Jean-Baptiste de Villegas (1721-1806), a member of the Gezelschap van den Heiligen Bloede in Bruges.Naming citation (20090209/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where de Villegas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: de Villegas is 3.21 au from the Sun and 2.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15785 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 QO3 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.7 km (#3,838 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0530 |
| Rotation period | 7.73 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.23 |
| Orbital period | 5.57 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.14 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.97 – 3.31 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0537 |
| Inclination | 14.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.03 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 18 August 1993
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