(25074) Honami Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 19 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Sakaguchi Honami (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her animal sciences project. She attends the Urawa Daiichi Jyoshi High School, Saitama, Japan.Naming citation (20080917/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Honami is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Honami is 1.96 au from the Sun and 2.34 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25074
Provisional designation1998 QF96
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.94 km (#15,372 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.296
Absolute magnitude (H)14.93
Orbital period3.58 years
Semi-major axis2.34 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.95 – 2.73 au
Eccentricity0.167
Inclination5.86°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.937 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 19 August 1998

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