(22817) Shankar Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 September 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Aarthi Shankar (b. 1992) is a finalist in the 2006 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for her biochemistry, medicine, health, and microbiology project. She attends the Mountain Ridge Middle School, Colorado Springs, Colorado.Naming citation (20061009/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shankar is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shankar is 2.88 au from the Sun and 3.80 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 22817 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 RC23 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.26 km (#10,124 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0530 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.18 |
| Orbital period | 4.17 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.59 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.30 – 2.88 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.113 |
| Inclination | 5.59° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.29 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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