(23875) Strube Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Katherine Michaela Strube (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for her physical science project. She attends the Nipher Middle School, Kirkwood, Missouri.Naming citation (20071026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Strube is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Strube is 3.18 au from the Sun and 3.57 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23875 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 RC77 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.08 km (#7,537 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0290 |
| Rotation period | 4.25 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.57 |
| Orbital period | 4.39 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.68 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.18 – 3.19 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.188 |
| Inclination | 3.71° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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