(24188) Matthewage Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Matthew Michael Wage (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Appleton High School East, Appleton, Wisconsin.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Matthewage is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Matthewage is 2.38 au from the Sun and 2.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24188 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XS24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.83 km (#13,148 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.251 |
| Rotation period | 70.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.45 |
| Orbital period | 3.71 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.40 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.24 – 2.55 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0642 |
| Inclination | 6.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.24 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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