(12908) Yagudina Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Eleonora Ivanovna Yagudina (b. 1941) is a staff member at the Institute of Applied Astronomy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. She has worked extensively on the motions of solar system bodies, and devotes much of her time to educating young people in astronomy.Naming citation (20110615/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yagudina is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yagudina is 2.36 au from the Sun and 3.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 12908 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SG25 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.19 km (#7,424 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.259 |
| Rotation period | 12.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.03 |
| Orbital period | 4.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.66 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.36 – 2.96 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.112 |
| Inclination | 13.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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