(30296) Bricehuang Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Brice Huang (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North, Plainsboro, New Jersey.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Bricehuang is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Bricehuang is 2.73 au from the Sun and 3.03 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30296 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HZ76 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.90 km (#15,458 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.278 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.97 |
| Orbital period | 4.27 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.63 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.44 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0727 |
| Inclination | 9.68° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.47 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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