(30353) Carothers Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Patti Carothers mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She's a retired teacher and co-founded Science Alliance, an after school science project mentoring program, in Danville, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-07-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Carothers is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carothers is 2.99 au from the Sun and 2.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30353 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JQ39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.04 km (#15,104 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.398 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.64 |
| Orbital period | 4.76 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.83 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.65 – 3.01 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0628 |
| Inclination | 2.77° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.64 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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