(32298) Kunalshroff Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kunal Shroff (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors, for his cellular and molecular biology project. He attends the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, Alexandria, Virginia.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kunalshroff is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kunalshroff is 2.69 au from the Sun and 1.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32298 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QD12 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.29 km (#12,058 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.166 |
| Rotation period | 4.35 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.71 |
| Orbital period | 5.01 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.93 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.64 – 3.22 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0989 |
| Inclination | 1.18° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.66 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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