234240

234240 is the numerical designation assigned to a minor planet in the solar system. In the official catalog maintained by the Minor Planet Center, such objects receive a sequential number once their orbits are well determined.

The number 234240 indicates that this body was the 234,240th minor planet to be officially numbered. Many numbered minor planets have not received formal names; if a name is later assigned, it would appear alongside the number.

Discovery details and orbital data for 234240 are recorded in the Minor Planet Center archive and in the JPL Small-Body Database. These sources provide orbital elements, classification, and observational history, and they are updated as new observations refine the object's trajectory.

As a mathematical note, 234240 is an even composite integer. Its prime factorization is 2^8 × 3 × 5 × 61, and it is divisible by 10 and by powers of two up to 256.

In other contexts, the number 234240 may be used as an identifier in databases or records unrelated to astronomy.