(29995) Arshavsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Alec Vadim Arshavsky (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioengineering project. He attends the East Chapel Hill High School, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Arshavsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Arshavsky is 1.92 au from the Sun and 2.89 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 29995 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AO97 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.45 km (#9,804 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0500 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.54 |
| Orbital period | 3.28 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.92 – 2.50 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.131 |
| Inclination | 5.06° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.912 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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