(14182) Alley Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 November 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Karen Alley mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the East Middle School, Butte, Montana.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Alley is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alley is 2.06 au from the Sun and 1.11 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14182 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 WG12 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.06 |
| Orbital period | 3.54 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.32 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.99 – 2.66 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.144 |
| Inclination | 5.95° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.986 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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