(111594) Raktanya Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 11 January 2002 by Sarneczky, K., Heiner, Z. at Piszkesteto.
Ráktanya is a famed hostel in the Bakony Mountains in Hungary. In the 1990s the “Three Thousand Star Hotel” was the mountain station of Hungarian amateur astronomers, who made thousands of visual observations of meteors, comets and variable stars there.Naming citation (20100330/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Raktanya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Raktanya is 2.44 au from the Sun and 1.95 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 111594 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 AX66 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.89 |
| Orbital period | 3.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.139 |
| Inclination | 2.41° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.04 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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