(19504) Vladalekseev Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 1 June 1998 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Vladimir Alekseev (b. 1935), a physicist at the Troitsk Institute in the Moscow region, has searched the Tunguska site for pieces of the impacting body. He made radar measurements up to a depth of 80 meters.Naming citation (20060219/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Vladalekseev is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Vladalekseev is 3.05 au from the Sun and 2.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number19504
Provisional designation1998 LL2
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter8.94 km (#5,798 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.153
Rotation period9.46 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)13.23
Orbital period5.17 years
Semi-major axis2.99 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.84 – 3.13 au
Eccentricity0.0487
Inclination11.0°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.86 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Vladimir

Also discovered on 1 June 1998

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