(24189) Lewasserman Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Louis Eric Wasserman (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his computer science project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lewasserman is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lewasserman is 2.27 au from the Sun and 1.90 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24189 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XR25 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.94 km (#15,381 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.325 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.85 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.06 – 2.41 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0786 |
| Inclination | 4.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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