(25962) Yifanli Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 18 March 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Yifan Li (b. 1991) is a finalist in the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his medicine and health sciences project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #8, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yifanli is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yifanli is 2.58 au from the Sun and 2.23 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 25962 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 FF26 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.56 km (#16,139 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.268 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.11 |
| Orbital period | 4.05 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.54 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.18 – 2.90 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.140 |
| Inclination | 3.16° |
| 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 discovered on 18 March 2001
- (25953) Lanairlett
- (25963) Elisalin
- (25964) Liudavid
- (25965) Masihdas
- (25970) Nelakanti
- (25972) Pfefferjosh
- (25973) Puranik
- (25978) Katerudolph
- (25979) Alansage
- (25981) Shahmirian
- (26002) Angelayeung
- (26003) Amundson