(23922) Tawadros Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 26 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Kyrillos Bahaa Tawadros (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his earth and space science project. He attends the Doolen Middle School, Tucson, Arizona.Naming citation (20071026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Tawadros is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tawadros is 2.98 au from the Sun and 2.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number23922
Provisional designation1998 SR135
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter9.90 km (#5,157 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0310
Absolute magnitude (H)14.29
Orbital period5.48 years
Semi-major axis3.11 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.64 – 3.58 au
Eccentricity0.152
Inclination3.95°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.63 au

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

Also discovered on 26 September 1998

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