(30024) Neildavey Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Neil Davey (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his bioengineering project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Neildavey is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Neildavey is 2.53 au from the Sun and 2.76 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30024 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 DM21 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.41 km (#11,827 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0520 |
| Rotation period | 3.00 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.87 |
| Orbital period | 3.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 2.61 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.160 |
| Inclination | 3.20° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.878 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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