(25901) Ericbrooks Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 December 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Eric David Brooks (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the George W. Hewlett High School, Hewlett, New York.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ericbrooks is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ericbrooks is 2.39 au from the Sun and 2.61 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25901 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 YX99 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.8 |
| Orbital period | 3.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.39 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.07 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.135 |
| Inclination | 2.21° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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