(30012) Sohamdaga Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Soham Daga (b. 1996) is a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his behavioral and social sciences project. He attends the Stuyvesant High School, New York, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sohamdaga is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sohamdaga is 2.58 au from the Sun and 1.59 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30012 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CB67 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.39 km (#14,239 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.222 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.9 |
| Orbital period | 3.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.33 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.00 – 2.65 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.141 |
| Inclination | 7.23° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.998 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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