(25331) Berrevoets Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 20 May 1999 by J. M. Roe at Oaxaca.

Cor Berrevoets (b. 1963) developed the free image-processing program Registax used by amateur and professional astronomers around the globe to produce extremely high resolution lunar and planetary images.Naming citation (20080321/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Berrevoets is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Berrevoets is 2.13 au from the Sun and 2.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25331
Provisional designation1999 KY4
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter6.55 km (#8,190 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0540
Absolute magnitude (H)14.91
Orbital period4.46 years
Semi-major axis2.71 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.13 – 3.28 au
Eccentricity0.212
Inclination2.56°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.12 au

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

Also discovered on 20 May 1999

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