(21406) Jimyang Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jimmy Chen Yang (b. 1987) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his medicine and health project. He attends the Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas.Naming citation (20050224/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jimyang is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jimyang is 2.52 au from the Sun and 3.47 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 21406 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FZ63 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.87 km (#15,509 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.408 |
| Rotation period | 9.19 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.57 |
| Orbital period | 3.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.05 – 2.63 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.123 |
| Inclination | 6.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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