(25970) Nelakanti Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 March 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Raman Venkat Nelakanti (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his plant sciences project. He attends the Lynbrook High School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nelakanti is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nelakanti is 2.53 au from the Sun and 3.47 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25970 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 FD35 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.85 km (#10,903 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.206 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.24 |
| Orbital period | 4.16 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.59 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.35 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0917 |
| Inclination | 9.33° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.35 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 18 March 2001
- (25953) Lanairlett
- (25962) Yifanli
- (25963) Elisalin
- (25964) Liudavid
- (25965) Masihdas
- (25972) Pfefferjosh
- (25973) Puranik
- (25978) Katerudolph
- (25979) Alansage
- (25981) Shahmirian
- (26002) Angelayeung
- (26003) Amundson