(24926) Jinpan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 April 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jin Pan (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, California.Naming citation (20120506/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jinpan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jinpan is 2.73 au from the Sun and 2.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24926 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 GB8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.48 km (#14,007 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0580 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.28 |
| Orbital period | 4.10 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.56 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.12 – 3.00 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.172 |
| Inclination | 1.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.13 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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