(22562) Wage Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 April 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Nicholas Michael Wage (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Appleton High School East, Appleton, Wisconsin.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Wage is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Wage is 2.83 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22562 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 HC19 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 4.56 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.75 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.38 – 3.12 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.136 |
| Inclination | 2.35° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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