(23834) Mukhopadhyay Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 28 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Prithwis Kumar Mukhopadhyay (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his environmental sciences project. He attends the Lake Junior High School, Woodbury, Minnesota.Naming citation (20071026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mukhopadhyay is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mukhopadhyay is 2.10 au from the Sun and 3.09 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23834 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QW90 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.42 |
| Orbital period | 3.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.84 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.196 |
| Inclination | 3.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.889 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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