(32296) Aninsayana Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anin Sayana (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search , a science competition for high school seniors, for his medicine and health project. He attends the Bellarmine College Preparatory School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-05-21), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Aninsayana is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Aninsayana is 3.06 au from the Sun and 3.92 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32296 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QY10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.09 km (#7,527 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0460 |
| Rotation period | 5.40 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.88 |
| Orbital period | 5.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.09 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.88 – 3.31 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0694 |
| Inclination | 1.85° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.87 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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