(7219) Satterwhite Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 March 1981 by S. J. Bus at Siding Spring.
Cecilia Satterwhite (b. 1958) is a curator of meteorites at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Her work in the Antarctic Meteorite Processing Laboratory has been critical to the distribution of countless specimens for study by scientists around the world.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Satterwhite is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Satterwhite is 2.02 au from the Sun and 1.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7219 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 EZ47 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.88 km (#15,504 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.407 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 4.26 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 3.26 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.240 |
| Inclination | 2.10° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.01 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Cecilia
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