(24976) Jurajtoth Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 April 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Juraj Toth (b. 1975) is a researcher at the Comenius University in Bratislava. His studies of meteoroid fragmentation include recording the 1998 Leonid meteor shower outburst by all-sky photography. He led an investigation of the 2010 Kosice meteorite fall.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jurajtoth is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jurajtoth is 2.39 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24976 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 HE51 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.94 km (#15,364 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.186 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.44 |
| Orbital period | 3.20 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.79 – 2.55 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.176 |
| Inclination | 3.89° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.780 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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