20799 Ashishbakshi
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| Discovery A | |
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| Discoverer | LINEAR |
| Discovery date | September 27, 2000 |
| Alternate designations B |
2000 SU172 |
| Category | Main belt |
| Orbital elements C | |
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| Eccentricity (e) | 0.158 |
| Semi-major axis (a) | 463.911 Gm (3.101 AU) |
| Perihelion (q) | 390.626 Gm (2.611 AU) |
| Aphelion (Q) | 537.241 Gm (3.591 AU) |
| Orbital period (P) | 1994.926 d (5.46 a) |
| Mean orbital speed | ? km/s |
| Inclination (i) | 2.819° |
| Longitude of the ascending node (Ω) |
40.926° |
| Argument of perihelion (ω) |
66.041° |
| Mean anomaly (M) | 14.664° |
| Physical characteristics D | |
| Dimensions | ?km |
| Mass | ?×10? kg |
| Density | ? g/cm³ |
| Surface gravity | ? m/s² |
| Escape velocity | ? km/s |
| Rotation period | ? d |
| Spectral class | ? |
| Absolute magnitude | 14.3 |
| Albedo (geometric) | ? |
| Mean surface temperature |
14.66 K |
 Ashishbakshi Orbit Diagram |
20799 Ashishbakshi is a minor planet discovered on September 27, 2000 by MIT Lincoln Laboratory's Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program. It lies in the Ceres belt of the solar system.
It was named in honor of Ashish Bakshi (b. 1988), who was awarded second place in the 2004 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his engineering project, Designing a System for Versatile Semi-Autonomous Robots. He again won the second place Grand Award in the 2006 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for his project, Polycaprolactone-Chitosan Nanocomposite Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Wound Healing.
Ashish currently attends Yale University.
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