(13804) Hrazany Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 9 December 1998 by Tichy, M., Moravec, Z. at Klet.

Hrazany is the site of an ancient Celtic town in central Bohemia above the Vltava river in a gold-mining region. With an area of about 75 acres, it was settled in the second century B.C. and was destroyed in the first century A.D.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #13, 9), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Hrazany is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hrazany is 2.79 au from the Sun and 2.03 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number13804
Provisional designation1998 XK
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter13.1 km (#3,684 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.0570
Absolute magnitude (H)13.39
Orbital period5.61 years
Semi-major axis3.16 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.71 – 3.61 au
Eccentricity0.142
Inclination5.97°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.71 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 9 December 1998

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