24032 Aimeemcarthy
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24032 Aimeemcarthy is a main belt asteroid
with an orbital period
of 1668.4868622 days (4.57 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 8, 1999 and named for Aimee McCarthy, the American mentor of a 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) finalist .
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
with an orbital period
Orbital period
The orbital period is the time taken for a given object to make one complete orbit about another object.When mentioned without further qualification in astronomy this refers to the sidereal period of an astronomical object, which is calculated with respect to the stars.There are several kinds of...
of 1668.4868622 days (4.57 years).
The asteroid was discovered on September 8, 1999 and named for Aimee McCarthy, the American mentor of a 2007 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC) finalist .