(23808) Joshuahammer Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 17 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Joshua Wayne Hammer (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his biochem, medicine, health, and microbiology project. He attends the Centennial Middle School, Dade City, Florida.Naming citation (20071026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Joshuahammer is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Joshuahammer is 3.00 au from the Sun and 3.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	23808
Provisional designation	1998 QL42
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	3.48 km (#14,022 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.175
Rotation period	4.39 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.79
Orbital period	4.88 years
Semi-major axis	2.88 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.71 – 3.05 au
Eccentricity	0.0593
Inclination	1.75°
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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