(30126) Haviland Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Maureen Haviland mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Lexington High School, Lexington, Massachusetts.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Haviland is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Haviland is 2.50 au from the Sun and 2.16 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number30126
Provisional designation2000 FS41
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter2.05 km (#16,985 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.552
Rotation period14.2 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)15.35
Orbital period3.47 years
Semi-major axis2.29 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.08 – 2.51 au
Eccentricity0.0929
Inclination7.93°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.07 au

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

Also named after someone called Maureen

Also discovered on 29 March 2000

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