(20024) Mayremartinez Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 30 January 1992 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Mayré Adriana Martínez Blanco (b. 1978) is a professional singer who uses the rare flageolet register. The Academia El Arte de Cantar, which she founded in 2001, was soon recognized as the best singing academy in Venezuela. In Oct. 2006 she won first place in the “Latin American Idol” contest.Naming citation (20070601/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Mayremartinez is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mayremartinez is 2.41 au from the Sun and 3.12 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number20024
Provisional designation1992 BT2
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter7.72 km (#6,850 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.248
Absolute magnitude (H)12.91
Orbital period4.31 years
Semi-major axis2.65 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.28 – 3.02 au
Eccentricity0.140
Inclination13.9°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.32 au

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

Also discovered on 30 January 1992

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