(25125) Brodallan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Broderick David Allan (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2008 Society for Science and the Public middle school science competition, for his engineering project. He attends the Saginaw Arts and Sciences Academy, Saginaw, Michigan.Naming citation (20090111/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Brodallan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brodallan is 2.60 au from the Sun and 1.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25125 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 RN78 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.62 km (#13,656 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.371 |
| Rotation period | 5.04 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.4 |
| Orbital period | 4.01 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.52 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.27 – 2.77 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0993 |
| Inclination | 4.36° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.26 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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