(30372) Halback Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Damon Halback mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Harker School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-07-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Halback is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Halback is 2.80 au from the Sun and 2.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30372 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JK62 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.54 km (#16,194 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.301 |
| Rotation period | 2.88 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.26 |
| Orbital period | 4.02 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.83 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.117 |
| Inclination | 3.19° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Damon
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