(32612) Ghatare Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 August 2001 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Adishree Ghatare (b. 2002) is a finalist in the 2016 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for her computer science and software engineering project. She attends the Challenger School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ghatare is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ghatare is 2.23 au from the Sun and 3.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32612 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 QA256 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.13 km (#14,879 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.217 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.09 |
| Orbital period | 3.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.44 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.21 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0961 |
| Inclination | 7.52° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.21 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 25 August 2001
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