(214819) Gianotti Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 November 2006 by V. S. Casulli at Vallemare Borbona.
Fabiola Gianotti (b. 1960) is the coordinator of the ATLAS experiment at the CERN's Large Hadron Collider, which discovered the Higgs boson.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2013-07-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gianotti is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gianotti is 3.08 au from the Sun and 3.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 214819 |
| Provisional designation | 2006 VK2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.45 |
| Orbital period | 5.43 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.09 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.91 – 3.27 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0575 |
| Inclination | 16.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.91 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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