(24199) Tsarevsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Irena Tsarevsky mentored a finalist in the 2008 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, New York.Naming citation (20080221/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tsarevsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tsarevsky is 3.19 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24199 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XD39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.77 km (#6,805 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0970 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.96 |
| Orbital period | 5.56 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.14 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 3.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 4.76° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.79 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 6 December 1999
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- (13841) Blankenship
- (13843) Cowenbrown
- (14224) Gaede
- (14678) Pinney
- (16113) Ahmed
- (16114) Alyono
- (16116) Balakrishnan
- (16117) Herbst
- (16142) Leung
- (20713) Sheward
- (21990) Garretyazzie