(133716) Tomtourville Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 October 2003 by CSS at Catalina.
Thomas Tourville (b. 1940) is a consulting member of the mechanical design team on the OTES instrument on the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He was the lead mechanical designer at Santa Barbara Research Center for both the TES and MiniTES.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tomtourville is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tomtourville is 2.98 au from the Sun and 3.20 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 133716 |
| Provisional designation | 2003 UW251 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.90 km (#15,441 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.159 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.52 |
| Orbital period | 4.85 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.87 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.73 – 3.00 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0479 |
| Inclination | 2.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.74 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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