(30051) Jihopark Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 8 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.

Jiho Park (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his biochemistry project. He attends the University High School, Irvine, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Jihopark is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jihopark is 2.85 au from the Sun and 3.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number30051
Provisional designation2000 ED41
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter6.64 km (#8,066 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0480
Absolute magnitude (H)15.0
Orbital period5.31 years
Semi-major axis3.04 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.75 – 3.34 au
Eccentricity0.0967
Inclination3.57°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.74 au

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

Also discovered on 8 March 2000

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