(30396) Annleonard Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Ann C. Leonard mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Appleton North High School, Appleton, Wisconsin.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-07-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Annleonard is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Annleonard is 3.03 au from the Sun and 3.52 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30396 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 KV36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.84 km (#9,157 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0990 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.69 |
| Orbital period | 5.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.01 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.79 – 3.23 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0729 |
| Inclination | 2.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.80 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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