(16026) Victoriapidgeon Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Victoria Pidgeon Andrews (b. 1956) did outstanding work for the NASA Planetary Defense Coordination Office. She guided the efforts of the US Government Interagency Working Group to develop the National Near Earth Object Preparedness Strategy and Action Plan to its publication on 2018 June 20.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #1, 12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Victoriapidgeon is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Victoriapidgeon is 2.04 au from the Sun and 1.11 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16026 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 CM118 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.66 km (#15,946 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.330 |
| Rotation period | 11.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.05 |
| Orbital period | 3.17 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.28 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0544 |
| Inclination | 3.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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