(25455) Anissamak Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 5 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Anissa Yuenming Mak (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her mathematics project. She attends the Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Anissamak is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Anissamak is 2.46 au from the Sun and 3.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25455
Provisional designation1999 XP12
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)14.99
Orbital period3.76 years
Semi-major axis2.42 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.24 – 2.60 au
Eccentricity0.0742
Inclination5.31°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.25 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 5 December 1999

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