(16219) Venturelli Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Ophelia Shalini Venturelli for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Ophelia is a student at the Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Venturelli is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Venturelli is 2.84 au from the Sun and 3.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16219 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 DL29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.59 |
| Orbital period | 3.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.88 – 2.86 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.206 |
| Inclination | 0.421° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.887 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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