(30718) Records Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1955 by Indiana University at Brooklyn.
Brenda Records (b. 1946) served the Indiana University Astronomy Department for more than 20 years. Her personal warmth and Hoosier spirit helped generations of graduate students complete their degrees and made the department a home-away-from-home for faculty, students, staff and visitors.Naming citation (20071124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Records is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Records is 3.65 au from the Sun and 4.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30718 |
| Provisional designation | 1955 RB1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.22 km (#5,606 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0660 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.11 |
| Orbital period | 4.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.89 – 3.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.317 |
| Inclination | 5.29° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.885 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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