(21448) Galindo Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 April 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Armando Galindo mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Robert Louis Stevenson School, Pebble Beach, California.Naming citation (20050224/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Galindo is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Galindo is 2.03 au from the Sun and 2.43 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 21448 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 HE21 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.76 |
| Orbital period | 3.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.58 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.124 |
| Inclination | 4.10° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.00 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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