(25413) Dorischen Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Doris Chen (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health project. She attends the Tenafly High School, Tenafly, New Jersey.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Dorischen is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dorischen is 2.61 au from the Sun and 2.26 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25413 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VE39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.91 km (#15,420 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.229 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.27 |
| Orbital period | 3.33 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.84 – 2.62 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.175 |
| Inclination | 0.477° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.827 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Doris
All asteroids named after someone called Doris
Also discovered on 10 November 1999
- (14217) Oaxaca
- (19721) Wray
- (21903) Wallace
- (25412) Arbesfeld
- (80184) Hekigoto
- (168531) Joshuakammer
- (200255) Weigle