(30269) Anandapadmanaban Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Eswar Anandapadmanaban (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioengineering project. He attends the Dr. Ronald E. McNair Academic High School, Jersey City, New Jersey.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-04-04), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Anandapadmanaban is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Anandapadmanaban is 2.57 au from the Sun and 2.20 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30269 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HS50 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.21 km (#16,759 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.361 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.4 |
| Orbital period | 3.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.141 |
| Inclination | 2.93° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.04 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 29 April 2000
- (15620) Beltrami
- (15621) Erikhovland
- (15627) Hong
- (15628) Gonzales
- (15629) Sriner
- (16249) Cauchy
- (16251) Barbifrank
- (16252) Franfrost
- (16253) Griffis
- (16254) Harper
- (17258) Whalen
- (18084) Adamwohl