(27258) Chelseavoss Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Chelsea Sierra Voss (b. 1994) was a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for her bioinformatics and genomics project. She attends the Cupertino High School, Cupertino, California, U.S.A.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Chelseavoss is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Chelseavoss is 2.24 au from the Sun and 2.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27258 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XF49 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.55 km (#16,160 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.108 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.19 |
| Orbital period | 3.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.13 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.120 |
| Inclination | 1.51° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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