17216 Scottstuart (2000 AK243) is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station on January 7 2000. It is named for Joseph Scott Stuart who developed moving-object detection software for LINEAR and derived a bias-corrected diameter distribution of the near-earth asteroid population.
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