(19410) Guisard Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 26 March 1998 by ODAS at Caussols.

Stéphane Guisard (b. 1970) is an optician at the European Southern Observatory in Cerro Paranal, where he is working on the Very Large Telescope, including the very complex interferometer. Before that he worked at La Silla, mostly on the 3.6-m telescope.Naming citation (20031110/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Guisard is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Guisard is 2.55 au from the Sun and 3.29 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number19410
Provisional designation1998 FW14
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.40 km (#16,451 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.212
Absolute magnitude (H)15.24
Orbital period3.62 years
Semi-major axis2.36 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.11 – 2.61 au
Eccentricity0.107
Inclination6.26°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.10 au

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

Also discovered on 26 March 1998

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