(30330) Tiffanysun Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 May 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Tiffany Sun (b. 1997) is a finalist in the 2015 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors, for her behavioral and social sciences project. She attends the Roslyn High School, Roslyn Heights, New York.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-06-02), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tiffanysun is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tiffanysun is 2.20 au from the Sun and 1.23 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30330 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 JY24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.57 km (#11,484 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.193 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.82 |
| Orbital period | 3.60 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.35 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.69 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.144 |
| Inclination | 6.89° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.000 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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