(19625) Ovaitt Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Elena Kurtz Ovaitt (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, a middle school science competition, for her biochemistry, medicine, health and microbiology project. She attends the West Platte Middle School, Weston, Missouri.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ovaitt is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ovaitt is 2.29 au from the Sun and 1.30 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19625 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RT11 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.13 km (#10,380 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.222 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.01 |
| Orbital period | 3.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.44 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.66 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0874 |
| Inclination | 3.10° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.24 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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