(34017) Geeve Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 23 July 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Geeve (b. 1999) was awarded second place in the 2017 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his biomedical engineering team project. He attends the Little Rock Indian School, Brahmavar, Karnataka, India.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Geeve is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Geeve is 3.00 au from the Sun and 4.00 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number34017
Provisional designation2000 OD17
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter6.35 km (#8,439 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0530
Absolute magnitude (H)15.02
Orbital period4.62 years
Semi-major axis2.78 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.54 – 3.01 au
Eccentricity0.0856
Inclination1.76°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.53 au

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

Also discovered on 23 July 2000

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