(30324) Pandya Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Dhaivat Nitin Pandya (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his computer science project. He attends the Appleton North High School, Appleton, Wisconsin.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pandya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pandya is 2.11 au from the Sun and 3.08 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30324 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JS19 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.94 km (#17,099 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.297 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.9 |
| Orbital period | 3.34 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.39 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0697 |
| Inclination | 1.65° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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