(25469) Ransohoff Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Julia Dory Ransohoff (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health project. She attends the Menlo-Atherton High School, Atherton, California.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ransohoff is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ransohoff is 2.16 au from the Sun and 2.15 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25469 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XC34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.69 km (#13,486 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.297 |
| Rotation period | 8.57 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.4 |
| Orbital period | 3.54 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.136 |
| Inclination | 7.57° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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