(32275) Limichael Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 1 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Michael Yifan Li (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search , a science competition for high school seniors, for his computational biology and bioinformatics project. He attends the James M. Bennett High School, Salisbury, Maryland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-05-21), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Limichael is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Limichael is 2.41 au from the Sun and 2.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32275 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 PS13 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.93 km (#15,395 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.206 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.28 |
| Orbital period | 4.03 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.53 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 2.66 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0520 |
| Inclination | 3.53° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.41 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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