(34267) Haniya Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 31 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Haniya Shareef (b. 2000) is a finalist in the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her plant sciences project. She attends the Lincoln Park Academy, Fort Pierce, Florida.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Haniya is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Haniya is 2.97 au from the Sun and 1.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number34267
Provisional designation2000 QC126
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter3.88 km (#13,029 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.129
Absolute magnitude (H)14.74
Orbital period5.13 years
Semi-major axis2.97 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.88 – 3.07 au
Eccentricity0.0315
Inclination1.69°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.86 au

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

Also discovered on 31 August 2000

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