Asteroid 16696, Villamayor, was discovered January 28, 1995 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak Observatory near Sells, Arizona. It has a period of 3 years, 307 days and is 2 2/3 miles in diameter.
It was named for Paraguayan amateur astronomer and astronomy popularizer Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo (born 1970).
Waldemar Villamayor-Venialbo
The meaning of asteroid Villamayor seems to be: bigger than, older than, an expansion of the social scene,