(31901) Amitscheer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Amit Scheer (b. 1998) was awarded second place in the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his biomedical and health sciences project. He attends the Colonel By Secondary School, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-11-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Amitscheer is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Amitscheer is 2.48 au from the Sun and 2.62 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 31901 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GU18 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.89 km (#15,476 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.254 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.03 |
| Orbital period | 3.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.131 |
| Inclination | 7.34° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.986 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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