(34123) Uedayukika Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 25 August 2000 by BATTeRS at Bisei SG Center.

Yukika Ueda (b. 1994) was a prizewinner in the 2008 Space-Day Award painting competition. She attends the Nazuka Junior High School, Nagoya-shi, Aichi-ken, and her winning painting was entitled Imagination of space journey.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #12, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Uedayukika is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Uedayukika is 3.14 au from the Sun and 3.86 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number34123
Provisional designation2000 QD
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter12.8 km (#3,780 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0470
Absolute magnitude (H)13.65
Orbital period4.72 years
Semi-major axis2.81 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.24 – 3.38 au
Eccentricity0.202
Inclination7.94°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.23 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 25 August 2000

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