(32405) Jameshill Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 September 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
James Hill mentored a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-04-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jameshill is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jameshill is 2.54 au from the Sun and 1.55 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32405 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 RD1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.70 km (#15,845 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.420 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.6 |
| Orbital period | 3.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.39 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.18 – 2.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0868 |
| Inclination | 6.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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