(30334) Michaelwiner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Michael Winer (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his physics project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Michaelwiner is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Michaelwiner is 2.26 au from the Sun and 3.25 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30334 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JN28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.66 km (#9,468 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0800 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.22 |
| Orbital period | 3.80 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.43 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.23 – 2.64 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0861 |
| Inclination | 5.07° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.23 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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