(23047) Isseroff Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Rebecca Isseroff mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns & Rockaway, Cedarhurst, New York.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Isseroff is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Isseroff is 2.72 au from the Sun and 1.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23047 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XS28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.99 km (#7,668 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0760 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.53 |
| Orbital period | 4.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.73 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.72 – 2.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.00606 |
| Inclination | 6.07° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.71 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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