(20311) Nancycarter Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Nancy Carter mentored a finalist in the 2004 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Mediapolis High School, Mediapolis, Iowa.Naming citation (20040415/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nancycarter is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nancycarter is 2.60 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20311 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FH117 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.44 km (#16,373 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.296 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.1 |
| Orbital period | 4.15 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.58 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.37 – 2.79 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0811 |
| Inclination | 4.01° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.36 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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