(22982) Emmacall Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Emma Call (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her engineering project. She attends the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute, Baltimore, Maryland.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Emmacall is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Emmacall is 2.98 au from the Sun and 3.97 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22982 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VB31 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.20 km (#12,258 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.275 |
| Rotation period | 43.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.39 |
| Orbital period | 4.99 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.92 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.86 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0193 |
| Inclination | 2.84° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.86 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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