(20205) Sitanchen Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 March 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Sitan Chen (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Northview High School, Duluth, Georgia.Naming citation (20120506/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sitanchen is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sitanchen is 2.70 au from the Sun and 1.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 20205 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 EJ34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.79 km (#13,222 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.213 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.74 |
| Orbital period | 4.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.72 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 2.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.00952 |
| Inclination | 3.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.68 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 4 March 1997
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- (9437) Hironari
- (9800) Shigetoshi
- (12477) Haiku
- (15887) Daveclark
- (17694) Jiranek
- (18561) Fengningding
- (21351) Bhagwat
- (24922) Bechtel
- (26934) Jordancotler
- (33011) Kurtiscarsch