(19788) Hunker Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Roxanne Hunker mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Rhoades School for the Gifted, Encinitas, California.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hunker is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hunker is 2.14 au from the Sun and 1.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19788 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QV116 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.78 km (#5,936 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0510 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.31 |
| Orbital period | 4.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.62 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 3.09 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.183 |
| Inclination | 9.71° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.17 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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