(25978) Katerudolph Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 March 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Katherine Rebecca Rudolph (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her mathematical sciences project. She attends the Naperville Central High School, Naperville, Illinois.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Katerudolph is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Katerudolph is 3.00 au from the Sun and 2.03 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25978 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 FS48 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.40 km (#11,838 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.251 |
| Rotation period | 5.68 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.35 |
| Orbital period | 4.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.53 – 3.02 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0885 |
| Inclination | 8.70° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.52 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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