(23248) Batchelor Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 November 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Holly Reid Batchelor (b. 1989) was awarded first place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her physics and astronomy project. She attends the Mary Erskine School, Edinburgh, Scotland.Naming citation (20070828/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Batchelor is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Batchelor is 2.73 au from the Sun and 3.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23248 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 WW178 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.30 km (#8,500 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.112 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.46 |
| Orbital period | 4.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.27 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.105 |
| Inclination | 9.51° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.28 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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