(27519) Miames Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 27 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Michaela Iames mentored a finalist in the 2011 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle-school students. She teaches at the St. Timothy's School, Raleigh, North Carolina.Naming citation (20111210/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Miames is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Miames is 2.87 au from the Sun and 2.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number27519
Provisional designation2000 HV20
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter3.54 km (#13,859 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.295
Absolute magnitude (H)14.52
Orbital period4.68 years
Semi-major axis2.80 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.70 – 2.90 au
Eccentricity0.0372
Inclination4.57°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.69 au

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

Also named after someone called Michaela

Also discovered on 27 April 2000

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