(28687) Reginareals Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Regina A. Reals mentored a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors. She teaches at the Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School, Burnt Hills, New York.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Reginareals is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Reginareals is 2.70 au from the Sun and 2.15 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28687 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GP74 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.49 km (#14,006 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.203 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.8 |
| Orbital period | 5.01 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.67 – 3.18 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0881 |
| Inclination | 2.87° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.65 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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