(92209) Pingtang Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 December 1999 by Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at Xinglong.
Pingtang county, situated in southwestern China in Qiannan Buyi and Miao autonomous prefecture, Guizhou province, has rich tourism resources, especially the world's best-preserved karst landform, providing a unique site for constructing FAST (the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope).Naming citation (20100726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pingtang is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pingtang is 2.74 au from the Sun and 1.87 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 92209 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 YS17 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.25 km (#6,350 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.124 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.61 |
| Orbital period | 5.35 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.06 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.71 – 3.41 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.115 |
| Inclination | 10.9° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 26 December 1999
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