(19452) Keeney Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Chelsea Ray Keeney (b. 1985) was awarded fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her medicine and health project. She attends the School of the Osage, Kaiser, Missouri, U.S.A.Naming citation (20040830/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Keeney is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Keeney is 2.37 au from the Sun and 1.99 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19452 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FX125 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.71 |
| Orbital period | 3.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.15 – 2.38 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0502 |
| Inclination | 5.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.17 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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