(30008) Aroncoraor Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 2 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Aron Coraor (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his chemistry project. He attends the Huntington High School, Huntington, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Aroncoraor is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Aroncoraor is 2.00 au from the Sun and 2.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number30008
Provisional designation2000 CE49
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Absolute magnitude (H)15.43
Orbital period3.64 years
Semi-major axis2.36 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.93 – 2.80 au
Eccentricity0.186
Inclination1.93°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.911 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Aron

Also discovered on 2 February 2000

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