(25483) Trusheim Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Stephen Walter Trusheim (b. 1990) is a finalist in the 2009 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the Breck School, Minneapolis, Minnesota.Naming citation (20090311/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Trusheim is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Trusheim is 2.16 au from the Sun and 2.74 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25483 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XF74 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.35 |
| Orbital period | 3.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.42 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.16 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.106 |
| Inclination | 0.974° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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