(22530) Huynh-Le Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Minh-Phuong Huynh-Le (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her chemistry project. She attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Huynh-Le is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Huynh-Le is 1.88 au from the Sun and 1.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number22530
Provisional designation1998 FY41
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.83 km (#15,594 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.187
Rotation period4.70 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)15.35
Orbital period3.43 years
Semi-major axis2.27 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.84 – 2.70 au
Eccentricity0.189
Inclination5.26°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.831 au

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

Also discovered on 20 March 1998

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