(34246) Kopparapu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kavya Kopparapu (b. 2000) is a finalist in the 2018 Regeneron Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for her computational biology and bioinformatics project. She attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2018-05-29), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kopparapu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kopparapu is 1.91 au from the Sun and 2.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 34246 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QO102 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.85 km (#17,189 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.391 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.63 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.88 – 2.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.164 |
| Inclination | 4.09° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.859 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Kavya
All asteroids named after someone called Kavya
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- (19788) Hunker
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