(30409) Piccirillo Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Angelo Piccirillo mentored a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Ossining High School, Ossining, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-07-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Piccirillo is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Piccirillo is 2.45 au from the Sun and 1.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30409 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 KY55 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.06 |
| Orbital period | 4.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.28 – 2.91 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.122 |
| Inclination | 2.20° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.27 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Angelo
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Also discovered on 27 May 2000
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