(16254) Harper Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 April 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Dan Harper for mentoring a finalist in the 2002 Intel Science Talent Search, a science competition for high school seniors. Harper is a teacher at the Westlake High School, Austin, Texas.Naming citation (20020227/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Harper is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Harper is 2.86 au from the Sun and 2.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 16254 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 HZ53 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.67 |
| Orbital period | 4.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.85 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.66 – 3.05 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0681 |
| Inclination | 2.44° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.65 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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