(30017) Shaundatta Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Shaun Datta (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his physics project. He attends the Montgomery Blair High School, Silver Spring, Maryland.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shaundatta is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shaundatta is 2.69 au from the Sun and 1.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30017 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CQ95 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.64 km (#13,617 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.279 |
| Rotation period | 2.60 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.57 |
| Orbital period | 3.53 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.92 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.170 |
| Inclination | 1.11° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.913 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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