(30088) Depra Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 11 March 2000 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Mário De Prá (b. 1986) is a postdoctoral researcher at Florida Space Institute (Orlando, Florida) whose studies include photometry and spectroscopy of primitive asteroids to infer their composition, in particular those belonging to the outer belt dynamical groups.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Depra is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Depra is 2.83 au from the Sun and 3.54 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30088 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EK128 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.24 km (#7,381 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0390 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.11 |
| Orbital period | 3.86 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.88 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.170 |
| Inclination | 3.59° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.02 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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