(22112) Staceyraw Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 31 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Stacey Raw mentored a finalist in the 2005 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the Winans Elementary School, Livingston, Montana.Naming citation (20051019/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Staceyraw is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Staceyraw is 2.40 au from the Sun and 3.08 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number22112
Provisional designation2000 QO181
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter4.58 km (#11,477 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.122
Rotation period38.6 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)14.92
Orbital period3.62 years
Semi-major axis2.36 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.96 – 2.76 au
Eccentricity0.170
Inclination5.00°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.966 au

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

Also named after someone called Stacey

Also discovered on 31 August 2000

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