(30514) Chiomento Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 21 April 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Gabriel Chiomento da Motta (b. 1995) was awarded second place in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his materials and bioengineering team project. He attends the Fundacao Escola Tecnica Liberato Salzano Vieira da Cunha, Novo Hamburgo, RS, Brazil.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Chiomento is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Chiomento is 2.62 au from the Sun and 2.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number30514
Provisional designation2001 HQ49
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter5.14 km (#10,362 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0460
Absolute magnitude (H)15.74
Orbital period3.32 years
Semi-major axis2.22 au
Perihelion – aphelion1.81 – 2.63 au
Eccentricity0.184
Inclination3.20°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)0.800 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called Gabriel

Also discovered on 21 April 2001

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