(32295) Ravichandran Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Kavya Ravichandran (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her bioengineering project. She attends the Hathaway Brown School, Shaker Heights, Ohio.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-04-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ravichandran is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ravichandran is 2.75 au from the Sun and 3.52 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32295 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QD10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.42 km (#14,183 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.240 |
| Rotation period | 88.2 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.71 |
| Orbital period | 4.04 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.54 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.17 – 2.90 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.145 |
| Inclination | 8.00° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.18 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 24 August 2000
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