(12356) Carlscheele Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 15 September 1993 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.

Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742-1786) was a Swedish apothecary who discovered oxygen independently from Lavoisier and Priestley. In 1775 he was elected to membership into the Royal Academy of Sciences. He was the first to report the action on silver salts that became the basis of modern photography.Naming citation (20040306/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Carlscheele is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carlscheele is 3.24 au from the Sun and 4.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	12356
Provisional designation	1993 RM14
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	6.01 km (#8,913 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.281
Rotation period	6.45 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.34
Orbital period	5.02 years
Semi-major axis	2.93 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.62 – 3.25 au
Eccentricity	0.106
Inclination	1.61°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.62 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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