(27296) Kathyhurd Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kathy Hurd mentored a finalist in the 2011 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high-school seniors. She teaches at the Naperville Central High School, Naperville, Illinois, U.S.A.Naming citation (20110319/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kathyhurd is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kathyhurd is 2.07 au from the Sun and 2.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27296 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AO144 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.35 km (#11,961 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.180 |
| Rotation period | 5.31 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.79 |
| Orbital period | 3.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.46 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0948 |
| Inclination | 6.27° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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