(34259) Abprabhakaran Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 25 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Abilash Prabhakaran (b. 2000) is a finalist in the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his cellular and molecular biology project. He attends the Cherry Creek High School, Greenwood Village, Colorado.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Abprabhakaran is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Abprabhakaran is 2.03 au from the Sun and 2.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number34259
Provisional designation2000 QS119
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter1.88 km (#17,163 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.548
Absolute magnitude (H)15.12
Orbital period3.37 years
Semi-major axis2.25 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.03 – 2.47 au
Eccentricity0.0983
Inclination5.24°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.01 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 25 August 2000

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