(14174) Deborahsmall Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 November 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Deborah Small mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. She teaches at the George Washington Carver Middle School, Miami, Florida.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Deborahsmall is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Deborahsmall is 3.27 au from the Sun and 2.74 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14174 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 VO13 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.36 km (#14,309 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.358 |
| Rotation period | 2.90 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.44 |
| Orbital period | 4.84 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.86 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.36 – 3.36 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.175 |
| Inclination | 1.94° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.37 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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