(25920) Templeanne Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 February 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Temple Anne Douglas (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health sciences project. She attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology, Alexandria, Virginia.Naming citation (20100228/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Templeanne is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Templeanne is 3.00 au from the Sun and 3.25 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25920 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 DT18 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.37 km (#11,904 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.176 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.36 |
| Orbital period | 5.26 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.02 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.94 – 3.11 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0293 |
| Inclination | 9.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.93 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 16 February 2001
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