(25153) Tomhockey Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Thomas Arnold Hockey (b. 1959) is a professor of astronomy at the University of Northern Iowa. He headed the large team that produced the Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomy. For this he was awarded the AAS Historical Astronomy Division's Donald E. Osterbrock Book Prize in 2017.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-12-03), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tomhockey is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tomhockey is 2.60 au from the Sun and 3.08 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25153 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SY53 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.02 |
| Orbital period | 3.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.21 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0978 |
| Inclination | 9.31° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.20 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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