(28553) Bhupatiraju Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Surya Narayanaraju Bhupatiraju (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts.Naming citation (20130225/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bhupatiraju is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bhupatiraju is 2.33 au from the Sun and 3.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 28553 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 ED39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.94 km (#17,097 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.391 |
| Rotation period | 3.28 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.69 |
| Orbital period | 3.28 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.88 – 2.53 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.147 |
| Inclination | 1.73° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.871 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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