(143750) Shyamkumar Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 October 2003 by M. W. Buie at Kitt Peak.
Shyamkumar Bhaskaran (b. 1963) is an American navigation specialist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He has been involved in navigating many flybys of solar system bodies, including the NASA New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 4, #4, 7), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shyamkumar is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shyamkumar is 2.82 au from the Sun and 3.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 143750 |
| Provisional designation | 2003 UJ288 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.97 |
| Orbital period | 5.39 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.79 – 3.35 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0909 |
| Inclination | 1.81° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.81 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.