(30129) Virmani Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Rajeev Virmani mentored a finalist in the 2014 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Henry M. Gunn High School, Palo Alto, California.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Virmani is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Virmani is 2.48 au from the Sun and 2.04 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 30129 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 FT44 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.82 km (#17,203 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.254 |
| Rotation period | 7.73 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.85 |
| Orbital period | 3.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.29 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.10 – 2.48 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0830 |
| Inclination | 6.43° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.08 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Rajeev
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Also discovered on 29 March 2000
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