(47219) Heatherkoehler Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 October 1999 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Heather Koehler (b. 1975) is an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center. She took the lead in developing NASA’s first generation of directional meteoroid models, used in the placement of shielding on many crewed and robotic spacecraft.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Heatherkoehler is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Heatherkoehler is 2.52 au from the Sun and 1.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 47219 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 UU41 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.04 km (#7,606 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.278 |
| Rotation period | 10.6 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.97 |
| Orbital period | 4.05 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.54 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.35 – 2.73 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0759 |
| Inclination | 13.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.33 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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