(30577) Pinchuk Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 July 2001 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Pavlo Pinchuk (b. 1995) is an American physicist. He developed excellent software tools for the measurement of asteroid diameters and albedos from optical and infrared observations, leading to improved estimates for 4420 asteroids. He also augmented and refined a data processing pipeline for SETI observations.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #9, 18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pinchuk is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pinchuk is 1.78 au from the Sun and 1.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30577 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 OU103 |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.70 km (#17,271 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.555 |
| Rotation period | 60.0 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.84 |
| Orbital period | 2.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.82 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.67 – 1.97 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0813 |
| Inclination | 24.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.676 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Pavlo
All asteroids named after someone called Pavlo
Also discovered on 29 July 2001
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