(32462) Janmitchener Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jan Mitchener mentored a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Carmel High School, Carmel, Indiana.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-04-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Janmitchener is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Janmitchener is 3.57 au from the Sun and 4.08 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32462 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 SU112 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.59 km (#7,015 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0640 |
| Rotation period | 31.0 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.27 |
| Orbital period | 5.66 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 3.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.136 |
| Inclination | 0.911° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.76 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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