(27525) Vartovka Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by Pravec, P., Kusnirak, P. at Ondrejov.
Vartovka is a hill near the town of Banská Bystrica, Slovakia. A watchtower was built there in the sixteenth century to check possible aggression. In 1961 it was rebuilt as a public observatory. Its main activities are observations of interplanetary matter and the popularization of astronomy.Naming citation (20020427/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Vartovka is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Vartovka is 2.55 au from the Sun and 3.49 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27525 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HZ34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.99 km (#15,250 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.216 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.59 |
| Orbital period | 3.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.85 – 2.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.178 |
| Inclination | 4.94° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.856 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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