(17759) Hatta Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 February 1998 by Shimizu, Y., Urata, T. at Nachi-Katsuura.
Hatta is one of the king's two messengers, one to fetch and one to carry, in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. He is seen bounding away ‘like a grasshopper’.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #11, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hatta is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hatta is 2.67 au from the Sun and 2.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17759 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 DA24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.43 km (#9,824 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.261 |
| Rotation period | 27.8 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.77 |
| Orbital period | 4.22 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.61 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.21 – 3.01 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.153 |
| Inclination | 11.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.