(25465) Rajagopalan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Aditya Rajagopalan (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his biochemistry project. He attends the Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, Connecticut.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Rajagopalan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rajagopalan is 2.48 au from the Sun and 3.21 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25465 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XT25 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 4.96 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.44 |
| Orbital period | 3.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.33 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.07 – 2.58 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.111 |
| Inclination | 4.55° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.07 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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