(14244) Labnow Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Troy Labnow for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Labnow is a teacher at the Medea Creek Middle School, Agoura, California.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Labnow is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Labnow is 2.83 au from the Sun and 3.56 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14244 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AT29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.48 km (#14,021 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.211 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.89 |
| Orbital period | 4.38 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.68 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.52 – 2.83 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0583 |
| Inclination | 4.46° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.51 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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