(28678) Lindquester Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Terri E. Lindquester mentored a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. She teaches at the Houston High School, Germantown, Tennessee.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lindquester is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lindquester is 2.36 au from the Sun and 2.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28678 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GN67 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.80 km (#13,215 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.233 |
| Rotation period | 2.52 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.63 |
| Orbital period | 3.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.22 – 2.52 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0632 |
| Inclination | 4.23° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Terri
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