(14274) Landstreet Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 January 2000 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.
John Darlington Landstreet (b. 1940) is on the faculty at the University of Western Ontario. He helped discover magnetic fields in white dwarf stars and developed Balmer-line polarimetry for detection of magnetic fields in middle-main sequence stars.Naming citation (20030614/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Landstreet is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Landstreet is 2.91 au from the Sun and 2.00 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14274 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 BL21 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 20.7 km (#2,122 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0450 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.57 |
| Orbital period | 5.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.18 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.59 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.127 |
| Inclination | 16.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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