(25417) Coquillette Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Elizabeth Charlotte Coquillette (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her engineering project. She attends the Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Coquillette is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Coquillette is 2.17 au from the Sun and 1.47 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25417 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VZ65 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.54 km (#16,176 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.328 |
| Rotation period | 5.42 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.18 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.40 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0712 |
| Inclination | 5.17° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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