(12881) Yepeiyu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Ye Peiyu (b. 1950), a 2002 Intel Excellence in Teaching Award finalist, is a teacher at the Northern Secondary School Attached to East China Normal University, Shanghai, China.Naming citation (20020724/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yepeiyu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yepeiyu is 2.81 au from the Sun and 3.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 12881 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QF31 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.89 km (#9,092 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0880 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.64 |
| Orbital period | 4.20 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.19 – 3.02 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.158 |
| Inclination | 3.61° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Ye
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