(16689) Vistula Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 August 1994 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
The Vistula river, 1047 km long, rises in the Beskidy mountains of southern Poland and flows to the Baltic Sea past Krakóv, Warsaw and Gdańsk.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Vistula is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Vistula is 3.64 au from the Sun and 4.30 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16689 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 PZ26 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.2 km (#4,986 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.141 |
| Rotation period | 4.04 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.97 |
| Orbital period | 5.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.68 – 3.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.152 |
| Inclination | 11.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.72 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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