(28640) Cathywong Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Catherine Wong (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for her bioengineering project. She attends the Morristown High School, Morristown, New Jersey.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Cathywong is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Cathywong is 3.18 au from the Sun and 3.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28640 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FQ49 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.82 km (#10,971 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.142 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.0 |
| Orbital period | 5.02 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.63 – 3.23 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.102 |
| Inclination | 8.39° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.66 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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