(30301) Kuditipudi Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Rohith Kuditipudi (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioinformatics and genomics project. He attends the Harker School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kuditipudi is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kuditipudi is 2.67 au from the Sun and 2.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30301 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HK87 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.35 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.12 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.88 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.175 |
| Inclination | 5.27° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.869 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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