(26232) Antink Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Suzanne Antink mentored a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Palo Alto Senior High School, Palo Alto, California.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Antink is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Antink is 2.79 au from the Sun and 3.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 26232 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QW8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.29 km (#8,522 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0410 |
| Rotation period | 35.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.21 |
| Orbital period | 3.74 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.41 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.81 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.168 |
| Inclination | 2.68° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.991 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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