(30000) Camenzind Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kathy Camenzind (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her physics project. She attends the California High School, San Ramon, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-06-13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Camenzind is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Camenzind is 2.39 au from the Sun and 2.44 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30000 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AB138 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.59 km (#16,085 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.457 |
| Rotation period | 38.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.79 |
| Orbital period | 3.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.45 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0812 |
| Inclination | 6.58° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.08 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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