(20563) Oliverprice Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Oliver Price (b. 1993) is a British scientist who researched the large-scale structure of comets’ dust tails for his Ph.D. at University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory. He employed innovative image-mapping techniques to capture for the first time the formation of dust tail striae.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 27), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Oliverprice is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Oliverprice is 2.58 au from the Sun and 3.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20563 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RG121 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.73 km (#11,167 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.199 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.94 |
| Orbital period | 4.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.22 – 2.98 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.146 |
| Inclination | 13.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.26 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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