(31919) Carragher Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Christopher Carragher (b. 1996) was awarded second place in the 2015 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his computational biology and bioinformatics project. He attends the Our Lady's Secondary School, Castleblayney, Monaghan, Ireland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-11-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Carragher is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carragher is 2.18 au from the Sun and 3.14 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 31919 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 GC69 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.31 km (#16,593 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.277 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.58 |
| Orbital period | 3.30 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.86 – 2.57 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.160 |
| Inclination | 1.81° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.848 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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