(22924) Deshpande Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 October 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Neha Anil Deshpande (b. 1989) is a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her zoology project. She attends the South Brunswick High School, Monmouth Junction, New Jersey.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Deshpande is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Deshpande is 2.87 au from the Sun and 2.41 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22924 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 TH101 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.6 km (#4,749 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0480 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.93 |
| Orbital period | 4.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.29 – 3.26 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.174 |
| Inclination | 9.92° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.32 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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