(32299) Srinivas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 August 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Pranav Srinivas (b. 1998) is a finalist in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for his computational biology and bioinformatics project. He attends the Monta Vista High School, Cupertino, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-06-20), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Srinivas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Srinivas is 3.05 au from the Sun and 3.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 32299 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 QD17 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.65 |
| Orbital period | 4.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.76 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.47 – 3.06 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.105 |
| Inclination | 7.36° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.49 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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