(30117) Childress Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Stephanie Childress mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Westwood High School, Austin, Texas.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Childress is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Childress is 2.62 au from the Sun and 3.00 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30117 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FW36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.65 km (#15,969 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.303 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.35 |
| Orbital period | 3.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.92 – 2.62 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.153 |
| Inclination | 3.35° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.908 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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