(24210) Handsberry Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Joy Handsberry mentored a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Los Alamos High School, Los Alamos, New Mexico.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Handsberry is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Handsberry is 2.73 au from the Sun and 2.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24210 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XM52 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.03 km (#5,738 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0650 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.19 |
| Orbital period | 4.40 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.69 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.56 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0480 |
| Inclination | 4.92° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.56 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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