(25482) Tallapragada Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Narendra Pundarik Tallapragada (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his physics project. He attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tallapragada is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tallapragada is 2.65 au from the Sun and 3.36 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25482 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XM72 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.34 km (#14,369 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.301 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.64 |
| Orbital period | 4.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.66 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 2.77 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0419 |
| Inclination | 2.45° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.54 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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