(5225) Loral Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 October 1983 by E. Bowell at Anderson Mesa.
Named for Loral, Inc., an American manufacturer of charge-coupled device chips. Several of Loral's large-format chips are to be used in a search for near-Earth minor planets and comets to be conducted by the discoverer.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #28, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Loral is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Loral is 2.56 au from the Sun and 1.65 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5225 |
| Provisional designation | 1983 TS1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 15.3 km (#3,074 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0630 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.8 |
| Orbital period | 5.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.09 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.53 – 3.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.182 |
| Inclination | 2.35° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.53 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 12 October 1983
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- (2246) Bowell
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- (2316) Jo-Ann
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- (2357) Phereclos
- (2383) Bradley
- (2409) Chapman
- (2410) Morrison
- (2411) Zellner
- (2421) Nininger
- (2432) Soomana
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