(33196) Kaienyang Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kaien Yang (b. 2002) is a finalist in the 2016 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle school students, for his medicine and health sciences project. He attends the Nysmith School for the Gifted and Talented, Herndon, Virginia.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-03-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kaienyang is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kaienyang is 3.53 au from the Sun and 4.25 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 33196 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FX48 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.36 km (#8,431 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.100 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.3 |
| Orbital period | 5.49 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.11 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.66 – 3.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.146 |
| Inclination | 4.53° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.68 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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