(15506) Preygel Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anatoly Preygel (b. 1985) was named a finalist in the 2003 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (20030216/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Preygel is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Preygel is 2.47 au from the Sun and 2.70 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 15506 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RX132 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.31 km (#16,591 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.526 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.93 |
| Orbital period | 3.66 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.52 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0623 |
| Inclination | 4.80° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.21 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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