(30125) Mikekiser Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Mike Kiser mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Brentwood High School, Brentwood, Tennessee.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mikekiser is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mikekiser is 2.22 au from the Sun and 2.51 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30125 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FF41 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.12 km (#14,913 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.345 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.82 |
| Orbital period | 3.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.38 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.17 – 2.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0919 |
| Inclination | 5.15° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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