Tags: Asteroid.
16419 Kovalev (provisional designation: 1987 SS28) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Lyudmila Zhuravlyova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory near Nauchnyj Ukraine on September 24 1987. It is named after Sergej Nikitich Kovalev a Russian shipbuilder and engineer at the Russian Academy of Sciences.