(23850) Ramaswami Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Keshav Ramaswami (b. 1993) is a finalist in the 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his biochem, medicine, health, and microbiology project. He attends the Mission Valley Middle School, Prairie Village, Kansas.Naming citation (20071026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ramaswami is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ramaswami is 2.06 au from the Sun and 2.44 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23850 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 RJ34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.82 km (#13,172 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.230 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.33 |
| Orbital period | 4.08 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.55 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 3.07 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.200 |
| Inclination | 8.25° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 14 September 1998
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