(14367) Hippokrates Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 September 1988 by F. Borngen at Tautenburg.
The Greek physician Hippokrates (460?-375 B.C.) is regarded as the founder of medicine as an empirical science. In antiquity and the Middle Ages, the Hippocratic oath bound the physicians to an unreserved preservation of human life, still today the basis of medical professional ethics.Naming citation (20001013/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hippokrates is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hippokrates is 2.81 au from the Sun and 3.24 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14367 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 RY3 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.29 km (#8,514 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0930 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.23 |
| Orbital period | 5.57 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.14 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.51 – 3.77 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.201 |
| Inclination | 1.38° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.50 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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