(16399) Grokhovsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1983 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa.
Victor Grokhovsky (b. 1947) is a professor of meteoritics at the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg, Russia. He has often organized search campaigns to recover meteorites in Russia and promptly worked to recover material from the Chelyabinsk airburst, leading to the main fragment.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Grokhovsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Grokhovsky is 1.99 au from the Sun and 1.20 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16399 |
| Provisional designation | 1983 RF2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.69 km (#6,888 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0490 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.55 |
| Orbital period | 4.27 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.94 – 3.33 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.265 |
| Inclination | 7.34° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.950 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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