(13841) Blankenship Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Paula A. Blankenship for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Blankenship is a teacher at the St. Michael Parish School, Wheeling, West Virginia.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Blankenship is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Blankenship is 2.23 au from the Sun and 3.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13841 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XO32 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.73 |
| Orbital period | 3.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.39 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.130 |
| Inclination | 1.10° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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