(19826) Patwalker Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Pat Walker mentored a finalist in the 2003 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge, a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Arthur I. Meyer Jewish Academy, West Palm Beach, Florida.Naming citation (20031010/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Patwalker is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Patwalker is 3.27 au from the Sun and 2.89 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19826 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 SX192 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.26 km (#6,343 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0450 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.22 |
| Orbital period | 5.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.08 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.89 – 3.27 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0613 |
| Inclination | 2.84° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.90 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 24 September 2000
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- (19810) Partridge
- (19811) Kimperkins
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