(24240) Tinagal Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Tina Gallagher mentored a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Paul D. Schreiber High School, Port Washington, New York.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tinagal is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tinagal is 2.21 au from the Sun and 2.18 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24240 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XV99 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.81 km (#15,653 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.390 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.86 |
| Orbital period | 4.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 2.86 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.132 |
| Inclination | 3.68° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.19 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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