(20501) Luxiaoping Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Lu Xiao-Ping (b. 1982) is a Chinese professor at Macau University of Science and Technology. He specializes in engineering, computer science, and AI techniques, with important applications to the modeling of asteroids from remote-sensing spectro-photometric data.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #11, 24), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Luxiaoping is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Luxiaoping is 2.95 au from the Sun and 3.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20501 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RD10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.18 km (#14,752 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.252 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.51 |
| Orbital period | 4.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.03 – 3.04 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.200 |
| Inclination | 6.98° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.03 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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