(32302) Mayavarma Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Maya Varma (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her engineering project. She attends the Presentation High School, San Jose, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-06-20), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mayavarma is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mayavarma is 2.22 au from the Sun and 1.71 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32302 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QO24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.06 km (#16,984 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.347 |
| Rotation period | 29.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.26 |
| Orbital period | 3.29 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.96 – 2.46 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.111 |
| Inclination | 5.77° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.964 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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