(19852) Jamesalbers Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 2 October 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.

James J. Albers (b. 1965) is a systems engineer who has supported airborne observing campaigns for meteor shower observations with flight planning and video data analysis. He is a station host in the Cameras for Allsky Meteor Surveillance (CAMS) network.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Jamesalbers is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jamesalbers is 3.05 au from the Sun and 4.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number19852
Provisional designation2000 TT58
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter15.0 km (#3,132 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.221
Rotation period9.16 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)11.69
Orbital period5.67 years
Semi-major axis3.18 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.65 – 3.71 au
Eccentricity0.167
Inclination19.2°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.66 au

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

Also named after someone called James

Also discovered on 2 October 2000

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