(25052) Rudawska Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 27 August 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.

Regina Rudawska (b. 1979) is a postdoctoral fellow at Comenius University in Bratislava. Her contributions include developing new tools for finding similarity among meteoroid orbits and identifying new meteoroid streams and their associated parent bodies.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-07-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Rudawska is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rudawska is 2.19 au from the Sun and 1.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number25052
Provisional designation1998 QG54
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.30 km (#16,614 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.305
Absolute magnitude (H)15.1
Orbital period4.05 years
Semi-major axis2.54 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.10 – 2.98 au
Eccentricity0.173
Inclination5.98°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.10 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Regina

Also discovered on 27 August 1998

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