(25551) Drewhall Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Drew Hall (b. 1982), together with Richard Gaster, a fellow student at Stanford University, won the “Change the World” competition, arranged by the IEEE presidents in conjunction with the organization's 125th anniversary in 2009. Their winning project was entitled “Nanolab: A Handheld Diagnostic Laboratory”.Naming citation (20090806/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Drewhall is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Drewhall is 2.32 au from the Sun and 3.30 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25551 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XP168 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.86 |
| Orbital period | 3.67 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.38 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.26 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0526 |
| Inclination | 5.70° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.27 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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