21540 Itthipanyanan

21540 Itthipanyanan, also designated Asteroid 1998QE11, is a main belt asteroid originally discovered August 17, 1998 by the Lincoln Laboratory Near-Earth Asteroid Research Team at Socorro, New Mexico. 21540 Itthipanyanan can be found in the asteroid belt located around the elliptical course of Mars and just inside of Jupiter.

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The asteroid is named for Thai student Suksun Itthipanyanan due to his second-place finish at the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with his experiment on the 'Dehiscence and dispersion of the popping pod Ruellia tuberosa L.' His second-place finish allowed his group to be recognized by Intel ISEF for an outstanding interdisciplinary science project, winning the naming rights for the asteroid.

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