(24120) Jeremyblum Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jeremy Evan Blum (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his engineering project. He attends the Byram Hills High School, Armonk, New York.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jeremyblum is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jeremyblum is 2.95 au from the Sun and 3.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24120 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 VR33 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.32 km (#6,293 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0440 |
| Rotation period | 9.14 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.27 |
| Orbital period | 5.17 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.99 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.67 – 3.31 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.107 |
| Inclination | 0.624° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.66 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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