(16157) Toastmasters Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 2000 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills.
Toastmasters, a public speaking club, was started by Ralph C. Smedley in 1924 at a YMCA in Santa Ana, California. Today Toastmasters is an international organization that affords practice and training for men and women in the art of public speaking and in the presiding over meetings.Naming citation (20020724/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Toastmasters is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Toastmasters is 2.99 au from the Sun and 3.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16157 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AS50 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.75 km (#7,935 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.268 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.29 |
| Orbital period | 4.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.67 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.34 – 3.00 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.124 |
| Inclination | 10.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.33 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 5 January 2000
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- (16158) Monty
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