(24118) Babazadeh Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Evan Joseph Babazadeh (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his is medicine and health project. He attends the Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, New York.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Babazadeh is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Babazadeh is 2.84 au from the Sun and 2.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24118 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VX28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.67 km (#11,285 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.117 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.86 |
| Orbital period | 4.67 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.79 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.60 – 2.99 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0689 |
| Inclination | 3.71° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.62 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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