(70783) Kenwilliams Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1999 by CSS at Catalina.
Kenneth Williams (b. 1956) is a member of the navigation team at KinetX, Inc. for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He was the Navigation Team Chief for the MESSENGER orbiter and the Stardust Missions, the Lead Maneuver Analyst for the Genesis mission, and a Mission Planner for the Cassini mission.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-03-05), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kenwilliams is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kenwilliams is 2.84 au from the Sun and 3.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 70783 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VK44 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.37 km (#8,422 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0440 |
| Rotation period | 3.67 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.96 |
| Orbital period | 4.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.62 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.27 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.133 |
| Inclination | 3.57° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.28 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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