(155116) Verkhivnya Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 October 2005 by Andrushivka at Andrushivka.
During his later years, the outstanding French novelist Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850) stayed at the estate of his wife, countess Evelina Hanska, in a small village of Verkhivnya, Ukraine. Here he wrote La Maratre, Les Paysans and a part of the unfinished La comédie humaine.Naming citation (20071124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Verkhivnya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Verkhivnya is 3.46 au from the Sun and 3.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 155116 |
| Provisional designation | 2005 TJ49 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.47 km (#9,765 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0340 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.74 |
| Orbital period | 5.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.44 – 3.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.229 |
| Inclination | 8.96° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.47 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.