(24191) Qiaochuyuan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Qiaochu Yuan (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 Bellevue High School, Bellevue, Washington.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Qiaochuyuan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Qiaochuyuan is 2.57 au from the Sun and 1.88 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24191 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XK30 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.08 km (#8,810 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0910 |
| Rotation period | 42.8 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.69 |
| Orbital period | 4.51 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.73 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.57 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0590 |
| Inclination | 6.24° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.58 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 6 December 1999
- (13840) Wayneanderson
- (13841) Blankenship
- (13843) Cowenbrown
- (14224) Gaede
- (14678) Pinney
- (16113) Ahmed
- (16114) Alyono
- (16116) Balakrishnan
- (16117) Herbst
- (16142) Leung
- (20713) Sheward
- (21990) Garretyazzie