(6252) Montevideo Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 6 March 1992 by UESAC at La Silla.

Named for the capital of Uruguay and city of the birth of G. Tancredi, one of the discoverers of this minor planet. The meaning of the name comes from the fact that the city is “watched over” by a bowl-shaped hill. Founded in 1726 by the Spanish crown in order to stop Portuguese expansion, Montevideo has a long tradition in astronomy, starting in 1789 when the first observatory was built to study a transit of Mercury, the observations of which were later used by Leverrier to discover the secular advance of Mercury's perihelion. In 1955 the first planetarium in the Spanish-speaking world was built there. Named on the occasion of the eighth Latino-American regional meeting of the IAU, held in Montevideo in November 1995.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 4, #10, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Montevideo is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Montevideo is 3.09 au from the Sun and 3.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	6252
Provisional designation	1992 EV11
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.57
Orbital period	4.96 years
Semi-major axis	2.91 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.73 – 3.09 au
Eccentricity	0.0621
Inclination	3.14°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.72 au

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

Also discovered on 6 March 1992

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