(25988) Janesuh Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 19 March 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Jane Yoonhae Suh (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health sciences project. She attends the Palos Verdes Peninsula High School, Rolling Hills Estates, California.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Janesuh is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Janesuh is 2.20 au from the Sun and 3.18 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25988
Provisional designation2001 FA67
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter4.92 km (#10,768 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0510
Absolute magnitude (H)15.59
Orbital period4.26 years
Semi-major axis2.63 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.15 – 3.11 au
Eccentricity0.182
Inclination4.74°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.17 au

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

Also named after someone called Jane

Also discovered on 19 March 2001

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