(25157) Fabian Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Andrew Christopher Fabian (b. 1948) is an X-ray astronomer at the University of Cambridge. He has worked with a number of orbiting X-ray observatories to advance our knowledge of such X-ray sources as black holes, their accretion disks, and gas in active galactic nuclei and clusters of galaxies.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-11-14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Fabian is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Fabian is 2.63 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25157 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SA56 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.85 |
| Orbital period | 5.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.11 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.53 – 3.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.185 |
| Inclination | 1.42° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.54 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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