(23235) Yingfan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 November 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Ying Fan (b. 1989) was awarded second place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her microbiology project. She attends the Cookeville High School, Cookeville, Tennessee, U.S.A.Naming citation (20070828/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yingfan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yingfan is 2.85 au from the Sun and 3.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23235 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 WD98 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.23 km (#14,655 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.354 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.61 |
| Orbital period | 4.11 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.56 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.22 – 2.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.135 |
| Inclination | 2.71° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Ying
All asteroids named after someone called Ying
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