(22544) Sarahrapo Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Sarah Kate Rapoport (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her bioinformatics and genomics project. She attends the Horace Mann School, Riverdale, New York.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sarahrapo is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sarahrapo is 2.31 au from the Sun and 1.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22544 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FL75 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.23 km (#16,722 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.388 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.29 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.83 – 2.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.180 |
| Inclination | 3.19° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.823 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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