(23681) Prabhu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 April 1997 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Anirudh Prabhu (b. 1994) is a finalist in the 2012 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high-school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the West Lafayette Junior-Senior High School, West Lafayette, Indiana.Naming citation (20120506/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Prabhu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Prabhu is 2.77 au from the Sun and 3.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23681 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 GC36 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.36 km (#14,325 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.272 |
| Rotation period | 36.5 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.86 |
| Orbital period | 4.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.68 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.57 – 2.78 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0377 |
| Inclination | 3.73° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.56 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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