(10819) Mahakala Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 19 April 1993 by J. DeYoung at Washington.
Mahakala, or “Great Time”, is one of the destructive aspects of Shiva in Vedic Hinduism, time being seen as the destroyer of all things. The naming also honors the long history of the U.S. Naval Observatory Time Service and its fundamental involvement in all scales of timekeeping from astronomical time to atomic time.Naming citation (20010509/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mahakala is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mahakala is 2.82 au from the Sun and 3.81 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10819 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 HG |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.69 km (#5,994 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0650 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.73 |
| Orbital period | 5.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.76 – 3.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.126 |
| Inclination | 1.34° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.75 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.