(30040) Annemerrill Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anne Merrill (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her environmental science project. She attends the Greenwich High School, Greenwich, Connecticut.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Annemerrill is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Annemerrill is 2.47 au from the Sun and 1.64 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30040 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 DO112 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.34 km (#9,981 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0520 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.58 |
| Orbital period | 3.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.31 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.73 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.179 |
| Inclination | 4.12° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.885 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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