(31926) Alhamood Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Abdul Jabbar Abdulrazaq Alhamood (b. 1996) was awarded best of category award and first place in the 2015 Intel ISEF for his plant sciences project. He also received the Dudley R. Hershbach SIYSS Award. He attends the Dhahran Schools, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-11-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Alhamood is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alhamood is 2.48 au from the Sun and 3.33 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 31926 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GW76 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.00 km (#12,730 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.277 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.43 |
| Orbital period | 4.51 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.73 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.47 – 2.99 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0964 |
| Inclination | 4.37° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.47 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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