(20569) Oscarrodriguez Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Óscar Rodríguez del Río (b. 1993) is a Catalan mathematician. His research focuses on dynamical systems and their application to celestial mechanics and orbital determination. Óscar has contributed to the identification of many new asteroids in the Isolated Tracklet File, including several near-Earth asteroids.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 28), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Oscarrodriguez is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Oscarrodriguez is 3.65 au from the Sun and 4.10 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20569 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RP132 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 17.3 km (#2,613 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0540 |
| Rotation period | 4.23 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.64 |
| Orbital period | 5.67 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.18 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.46 – 3.90 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.225 |
| Inclination | 12.8° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.51 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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