(10416) Kottler Mars-crossing Asteroid
Discovered on 14 November 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory associate director Herbert Kottler (b. 1939) headed the Aerospace Division (1984-1996), provided strong leadership of the Laboratory's space surveillance research (including initiating LINEAR) and led the Independent Readiness Review for the first Hubble Service Mission and the Cassini Mission for NASA.Naming citation (20020724/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kottler is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kottler is 2.22 au from the Sun and 2.85 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10416 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 VA32 |
| Orbit class | Mars-crossing Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.16 km (#14,814 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.272 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.61 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.35 – 3.14 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.399 |
| Inclination | 20.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.497 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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