(25899) Namratanand Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 December 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Namrata Anand (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her physics project. She attends the Harker School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Namratanand is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Namratanand is 2.06 au from the Sun and 1.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25899 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 YE61 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.63 km (#9,523 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0420 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.33 |
| Orbital period | 3.72 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.40 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.166 |
| Inclination | 2.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.01 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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