(30347) Pattyhunt Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Patricia Hunt mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-07-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pattyhunt is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pattyhunt is 2.48 au from the Sun and 2.26 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30347 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JY37 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.88 km (#15,494 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.337 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.0 |
| Orbital period | 3.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.06 – 2.53 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.102 |
| Inclination | 5.55° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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