(22594) Stoops Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 23 April 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Tracy Stoops mentored a finalist in the 2006 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Shorewood High School, Seattle, Washington.Naming citation (20060314/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Stoops is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Stoops is 2.20 au from the Sun and 1.75 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number22594
Provisional designation1998 HT107
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.29
Orbital period3.43 years
Semi-major axis2.27 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.15 – 2.40 au
Eccentricity0.0545
Inclination6.78°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.13 au

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

Also named after someone called Tracy

Also discovered on 23 April 1998

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