(14226) Hamura Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Jay Hamura for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Hamura is a teacher at the St. Andrew's Priory, Honolulu, Hawaii.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hamura is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hamura is 2.63 au from the Sun and 2.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14226 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XR50 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.73 km (#15,793 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.237 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.21 |
| Orbital period | 4.45 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.71 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.60 – 2.81 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0392 |
| Inclination | 2.92° |
| 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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