(24346) Lehienphan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Le Hien Thi Phan (b. 1990) was awarded second place in the 2008 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her biochemistry team project She attends the Chamblee Charter High School, Chamblee, Georgia, U.S.A.Naming citation (20080917/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lehienphan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lehienphan is 2.90 au from the Sun and 2.91 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24346 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AK100 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.56 km (#8,174 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0940 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.49 |
| Orbital period | 5.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.65 – 3.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.164 |
| Inclination | 6.23° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.66 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Le
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