(24751) Kroemer Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 21 September 1992 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.

German-born Herbert Kroemer (b. 1928), who has lived in the United States since 1954, is one of the pioneers of semiconductor heterostructures, used in computers for the transmission of information. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize for physics with Zh. Alferov and J. Kilby.Naming citation (20010804/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Kroemer is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kroemer is 2.49 au from the Sun and 1.55 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	24751
Provisional designation	1992 SS24
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	11.0 km (#4,587 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0490
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.12
Orbital period	4.81 years
Semi-major axis	2.85 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.49 – 3.21 au
Eccentricity	0.126
Inclination	5.35°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.50 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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