(14250) Kathleenmartin Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Kathleen B. Martin for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Martin is a teacher at the Doolen Middle School, Tucson, Arizona.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kathleenmartin is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kathleenmartin is 1.90 au from the Sun and 1.13 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14250 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AJ63 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.81 km (#15,640 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.204 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.75 |
| Orbital period | 3.42 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.88 – 2.66 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.173 |
| Inclination | 5.33° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.882 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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