(21351) Bhagwat Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 March 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Samuel Mohun Bhagwat (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Winston Churchill High School, Livonia, Michigan.Naming citation (20050224/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bhagwat is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bhagwat is 2.98 au from the Sun and 3.96 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 21351 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 EC36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.38 km (#11,876 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.104 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.37 |
| Orbital period | 4.14 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.58 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.10 – 3.06 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.186 |
| Inclination | 12.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.14 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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