(30299) Shashkishore Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Shashwat Kishore (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his mathematics project. He attends the Unionville High School, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shashkishore is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shashkishore is 2.63 au from the Sun and 3.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30299 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HW81 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.71 km (#11,199 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0550 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.82 |
| Orbital period | 3.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.83 – 2.67 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.188 |
| Inclination | 2.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.827 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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