(13320) Jessicamiles Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jessica Lian Miles (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for her biochemistry, medicine, health, and microbiology project. She attends the Keystone Junior High School, San Antonio, Texas.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Jessicamiles is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Jessicamiles is 1.90 au from the Sun and 1.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13320 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 RL79 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.72 km (#5,979 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0380 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.36 |
| Orbital period | 3.52 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.31 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.90 – 2.73 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.179 |
| Inclination | 3.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.894 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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