(12565) Khege Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Keith Hege (b. 1932), of Steward Observatory, University of Arizona, is an expert in high angular resolution astronomy and instrumentation. His image reconstruction of (433) Eros from speckle interferometric measurements made in 1981 was vindicated by the NEAR mission in 2000.Naming citation (20030501/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Khege is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Khege is 3.42 au from the Sun and 2.81 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 12565 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SV53 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 14.2 km (#3,358 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0510 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.41 |
| Orbital period | 5.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.18 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.88 – 3.48 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0946 |
| Inclination | 6.26° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.91 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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