(23228) Nandinisarma Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 November 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Nandini Sarma (b. 1990) was awarded first place in the 2007 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her microbiology project. She attends the Shawnee Mission East High School, Prairie Village, Kansas, U.S.A.Naming citation (20070828/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nandinisarma is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nandinisarma is 2.23 au from the Sun and 3.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23228 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 WQ57 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.35 km (#16,517 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.385 |
| Rotation period | 67.6 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.25 |
| Orbital period | 3.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.33 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.15 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0778 |
| Inclination | 6.19° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.13 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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