(34660) Mickeyvillarreal Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 November 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Michaela Villarreal (b. 1989) is an American planetary scientist who served on the Dawn Mission to (4) Vesta and (1) Ceres. She specializes in the plasma interaction, exosphere generation, and magnetic fields of small bodies. Her work also includes studying hazards to space structures due to micrometeoroid impacts.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 35), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mickeyvillarreal is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mickeyvillarreal is 3.01 au from the Sun and 2.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34660 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 WB162 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.12 km (#8,753 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.156 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.99 |
| Orbital period | 5.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.12 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.91 – 3.34 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0700 |
| Inclination | 16.8° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.91 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Michaela
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