(33408) Mananshah Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 February 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Manan Ajay Shah (b. 1999) is a finalist in the 2017 Regeneron Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his computational biology and bioinformatics project. He attends the Harker School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-07-09), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mananshah is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mananshah is 2.17 au from the Sun and 2.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 33408 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 CW76 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.19 km (#16,788 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.442 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.06 |
| Orbital period | 3.33 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.11 – 2.35 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0546 |
| Inclination | 6.11° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 12 February 1999
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