(17466) Vargasllosa Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 November 1990 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
Mario Vargas Llosa (b. 1936), a Peruvian writer well known from his novel La casa verde, received the 2010 Nobel Prize in literature, for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individuals resisting revolt and defeat.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-05-14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Vargasllosa is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Vargasllosa is 2.22 au from the Sun and 3.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17466 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 VL4 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.63 km (#15,999 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.336 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.63 |
| Orbital period | 3.43 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.05 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.101 |
| Inclination | 7.51° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.07 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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