(20437) Selohusa Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 8 May 1999 by CSS at Catalina.

The South Euclid-Lyndhurst, Ohio, U.S.A. (SELOHUSA) region is in suburban Cleveland. Euclid bluestone quarries provided building stone for the development of northeast Ohio in the 19th-century. NASA astronaut Carl E. Walz and Charles F. Brush, inventor of arc-lamp street lighting, are from the region.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2019-05-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Selohusa is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Selohusa is 2.32 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number20437
Provisional designation1999 JH1
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.69 km (#15,869 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.222
Absolute magnitude (H)15.2
Orbital period3.59 years
Semi-major axis2.34 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.04 – 2.65 au
Eccentricity0.129
Inclination6.11°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.04 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 8 May 1999

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