(26004) Loriying Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 18 March 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Lori Ying (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her animal sciences project. She attends the South Side High School, Rockville Centre, New York.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Loriying is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Loriying is 2.63 au from the Sun and 3.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number26004
Provisional designation2001 FL108
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.68
Orbital period3.66 years
Semi-major axis2.38 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.91 – 2.84 au
Eccentricity0.198
Inclination1.71°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.891 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Lori

Also discovered on 18 March 2001

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