Obaid is asteroid #21712 and also known as 1999 RL₉₆. Obaid’s orbit is characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.43 Astronomical Units, an eccentricity of 0.18, a period of revolution of 1 381 days, and an inclination of 2.7 degrees. Obaid measures 3.1 km in diameter. Obaid was discovered during the course of the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) project at the Lincoln Laboratory’s Experimental Test Site (ETS) on the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) near Socorro, New Mexico, USA.

Obaid is named after Sami Obaid, who was born in 1988 A.D. and was awarded second place in the 2005 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF) for his medicine and health project, while he attended the College Regina Assumpta, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Searching more information resulted only in some AI slop. So only the name Obaid can provide information for the astrological interpretation of the asteroid Obaid.

The name Obaid is an Arabic male given name, but obviously, because the case here, can also be a surname. Obaid is a diminutive of the Arabic word ʿabd (عبد) = slave, servant. Obaid and variants of this name can be translated as little servant, loyal servant, or devoted servant [of God]. So the asteroid Obaid represents servants.