(16515) Usman'grad Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 November 1990 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Usmanʹ is an old town in Russia, founded in 1645, and birth place of a number of notable people: famous physicist and Nobel Prize winner, N. G. Basov (1922–2001); the ethnographer, B. P. Knyazhinskij (1892–1975); and astronomer and discoverer of minor planets, N. S. Chernykh (1931–2004).Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #10, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Usman'grad is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Usman'grad is 3.50 au from the Sun and 4.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16515 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 VN14 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.0 km (#4,592 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0900 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.28 |
| Orbital period | 5.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.61 – 3.72 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.175 |
| Inclination | 2.24° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.62 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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