(25958) Battams Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 19 March 2001 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Karl Battams (b. 1979) is an astrophysicist and computational scientist at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, D.C. He has been in charge of the Sungrazer Project since 2003, overseeing most of the project's 3400+ sungrazing comet discoveries, and has contributed to the study of numerous near-Sun comets.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-09-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Battams is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Battams is 2.74 au from the Sun and 3.23 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25958 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 FF18 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.66 |
| Orbital period | 3.76 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.07 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.143 |
| Inclination | 0.812° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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