| Minorplanet: | yes |
| Background: |
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| 3551 Verenia | |
| Discovered: | 12 September 1983 |
| Mpc Name: | (1983) RD |
| Alt Names: | MPO 337280 |
| Epoch: | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
| Semimajor: | 2.09214AU |
| Perihelion: | 1.07179AU |
| Aphelion: | 3.1125abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Eccentricity: | 0.48771 |
| Period: | 3.03 yr (1105.3 d) |
| Inclination: | 9.51540° |
| Asc Node: | 173.840° |
| Arg Peri: | 193.241° |
| Dimensions: | 0.9 km |
| Rotation: | 4.93abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
| Abs Magnitude: | 16.75 |
| Albedo: | 0.37 |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Observation Arc: | 11898 days (32.57 yr) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
| Moid: | 0.0719179AU |
3551 Verenia, provisional designation, is an Amor asteroid and a Mars crosser discovered on 12 September 1983 by R. Scott Dunbar. Although Verenia passed within 40 Gm of the Earth in the 20th century, it will never do so in the 21st. In 2028 it will come within 0.025 AU of Ceres.
3551 Verenia was named for the first vestal virgin consecrated by the legendary Roman king Numa Pompilius.[1]