(31377) Kleinwort Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 December 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Lennart Julian Kleinwort (b. 1998) was awarded best of category and first place in the 2014 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his mathematical sciences project. He also received the Intel Foundation Young Scientist Award. He attends the Friedrich-Koenig-Gymnasium, Wurzburg, Germany.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kleinwort is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kleinwort is 2.23 au from the Sun and 2.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 31377 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 XG50 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.18 km (#10,286 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0910 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.05 |
| Orbital period | 3.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.98 – 2.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.138 |
| Inclination | 5.47° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.990 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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