(25410) Abejar Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Patrick Jeffrey Abejar (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his earth and planetary science project. He attends the Smithtown High School West, Smithtown, New York.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Abejar is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Abejar is 2.06 au from the Sun and 1.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25410 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VG36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.55 km (#16,166 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.206 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.21 |
| Orbital period | 3.83 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.05 – 2.84 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.163 |
| Inclination | 6.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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