(16252) Franfrost Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Fran Frost for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Frost is a teacher at the Baton Rouge Senior High School, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Franfrost is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Franfrost is 2.90 au from the Sun and 3.89 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16252 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HQ51 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.44 km (#11,769 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.171 |
| Rotation period | 4.39 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.06 |
| Orbital period | 3.86 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.02 – 2.90 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.180 |
| Inclination | 2.28° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 29 April 2000
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