(25424) Gunasekaran Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Suvai Gunasekaran (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her materials science project. She attends the James Madison Memorial High School, Madison, Wisconsin.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gunasekaran is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gunasekaran is 2.67 au from the Sun and 3.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25424 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VQ158 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.41 |
| Orbital period | 4.13 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.57 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.32 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0969 |
| Inclination | 2.83° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.34 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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