(25652) Maddieball Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 5 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Madeleine Amanda Ball (b. 1992) was awarded second place in the 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her animal sciences project. She attends the Ursuline Academy of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.Naming citation (20100428/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Maddieball is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Maddieball is 2.99 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25652
Provisional designation2000 AQ83
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)14.54
Orbital period5.51 years
Semi-major axis3.12 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.71 – 3.53 au
Eccentricity0.130
Inclination0.649°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.73 au

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

Also named after someone called Madeleine

Also discovered on 5 January 2000

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