(30085) Kevingarbe Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 9 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kevin Matthew Garbe (b. 1995) is a finalist in the 2013 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Saratoga High School, Saratoga, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kevingarbe is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kevingarbe is 2.50 au from the Sun and 2.91 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30085 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 EZ112 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.96 km (#17,075 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.421 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.66 |
| Orbital period | 3.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.26 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.97 – 2.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.131 |
| Inclination | 3.25° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.955 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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