(16164) Yangli Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Yang Li for achievement as a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Yang is a student at the Ward Melville High School, East Setauket, New York.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yangli is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yangli is 2.81 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16164 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AO69 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.43 km (#11,781 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.172 |
| Rotation period | 20.0 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 4.84 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.86 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 2.99 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0435 |
| Inclination | 2.62° |
| 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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