(32229) Higashino Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 July 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Soon il Junko Higashino (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search , a science competition for high school seniors, for her animal sciences project. She attends the Ossining High School, Ossining, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-05-21), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Higashino is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Higashino is 2.85 au from the Sun and 3.65 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32229 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 OX26 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.46 km (#14,089 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.309 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.75 |
| Orbital period | 4.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.80 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.63 – 2.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0618 |
| Inclination | 8.67° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.63 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Junko
All asteroids named after someone called Junko
Also discovered on 23 July 2000
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