(19808) Elainemccall Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 September 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Elaine McCall mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Howard Bishop Middle School, Gainesville, Florida.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Elainemccall is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Elainemccall is 2.57 au from the Sun and 2.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number19808
Provisional designation2000 SN85
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter4.43 km (#11,783 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.248
Absolute magnitude (H)14.22
Orbital period4.49 years
Semi-major axis2.72 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.57 – 2.88 au
Eccentricity0.0572
Inclination3.68°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.55 au

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

Also named after someone called Elaine

Also discovered on 24 September 2000

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