(21419) Devience Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Stephen Jacob DeVience (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his engineering project. He attends the Notre Dame High School for Boys, Niles, Illinois.Naming citation (20050224/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Devience is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Devience is 2.45 au from the Sun and 2.27 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 21419 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FP72 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.77 |
| Orbital period | 3.43 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.02 – 2.53 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.114 |
| Inclination | 2.39° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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