(28480) Seojinyoung Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Seo Jinyoung (b. 1993) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2011 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his environmental sciences team project. He also received the Dudley R. Herschbach SIYSS Award. He attends the Korea Science Academy of KAIST, Busan, South Korea.Naming citation (20121029/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Seojinyoung is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Seojinyoung is 2.08 au from the Sun and 2.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28480 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CL26 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.23 km (#14,636 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.140 |
| Rotation period | 6.87 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.17 |
| Orbital period | 3.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.95 – 2.79 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.178 |
| Inclination | 1.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.935 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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