(24935) Godfreyhardy Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 April 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Godfrey Harold Hardy (1877-1947) was the foremost English pure mathematician of his generation. He wrote hundreds of papers---many of them jointly with other outstanding mathematicians such as Littlewood and Ramanujan---on Diophantine approximations, number theory, inequalities and summability of series.Naming citation (20010804/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Godfreyhardy is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Godfreyhardy is 2.55 au from the Sun and 1.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 24935 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 HP2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.43 |
| Orbital period | 4.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.24 – 2.82 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.114 |
| Inclination | 1.20° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.