(28966) Yuyingshih Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 April 2001 by W. K. Y. Yeung at Desert Beaver.
Yu Ying-shih (b. 1930) is a renowned Chinese-American historian and Sinologist. He was a tenured professor at Harvard University, Yale University and Princeton University. He won the Tang Prize and used the NT$10 million prize money to establish the Yu Ying-shih Fellowship for the Humanities.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-10-26), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yuyingshih is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yuyingshih is 3.30 au from the Sun and 2.39 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28966 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 HS24 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.8 km (#3,797 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0820 |
| Rotation period | 142 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.18 |
| Orbital period | 5.76 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.09 – 3.33 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0373 |
| Inclination | 22.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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