(30326) Maxpine Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Max Pine (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his animal sciences project. He attends the Pelham Memorial High School, Pelham, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Maxpine is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Maxpine is 2.05 au from the Sun and 2.23 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30326 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JS21 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.01 km (#12,705 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0570 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.07 |
| Orbital period | 3.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.54 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 1.85° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.01 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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