(21364) Lingpan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 April 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Ling Pan (b. 1986) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her biochemistry project. She attends the Brearley School, New York, New York.Naming citation (20050224/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lingpan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lingpan is 2.83 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 21364 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 HS12 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.10 km (#7,506 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0530 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.85 |
| Orbital period | 4.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.70 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.31 – 3.08 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.142 |
| Inclination | 1.17° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.31 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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