(33382) Indranidas Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 10 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Indrani Das (b. 1999) is a finalist in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her medicine and health project. She attends the Academy for Medical Science Technology, Hackensack, New Jersey.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-06-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Indranidas is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Indranidas is 2.61 au from the Sun and 2.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number33382
Provisional designation1999 CE33
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter5.78 km (#9,263 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0490
Absolute magnitude (H)15.26
Orbital period3.71 years
Semi-major axis2.40 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.07 – 2.72 au
Eccentricity0.136
Inclination4.13°
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 discovered on 10 February 1999

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