(14593) Everett Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Everett Gibson (b. 1940), a planetary geochemist at the NASA Johnson Space Center, concentrates on the abundances, distributions and isotopic compositions of the volatile elements in lunar samples and meteorites. He co-led the team that discovered possible relic biogenic activity in the martian meteorite ALH84001.Naming citation (20030318/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Everett is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Everett is 2.21 au from the Sun and 1.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14593 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SA26 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 1.59 km (#17,318 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.637 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.41 |
| Orbital period | 3.50 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.30 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.98 – 2.63 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.142 |
| Inclination | 5.51° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.998 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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