(33419) Wellman Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 12 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Julian Wellman (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Greenhills School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-07-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Wellman is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Wellman is 2.33 au from the Sun and 3.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number33419
Provisional designation1999 CD112
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter3.54 km (#13,841 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.223
Absolute magnitude (H)14.88
Orbital period3.86 years
Semi-major axis2.46 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.32 – 2.60 au
Eccentricity0.0559
Inclination9.44°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.33 au

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

Also named after someone called Julian

Also discovered on 12 February 1999

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