(24186) Shivanisud Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Shivani Sud (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her bioinformatics and genomics project. She attends the Charles E. Jordan High School, Durham, North Carolina.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shivanisud is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shivanisud is 2.79 au from the Sun and 3.74 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24186 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XL18 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.99 |
| Orbital period | 3.58 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.34 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.194 |
| Inclination | 4.90° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.897 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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