(14327) Lemke Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 March 1980 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at La Silla.
Dietrich Lemke (b. 1939), the principal investigator of the ISOPHOT instrument on board ESA's Infrared Space Observatory, has encouraged the study of minor planets in the thermal infrared, resulting in their being established as a new class of far-infrared/submillimeter calibrators.Naming citation (20050125/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lemke is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lemke is 3.20 au from the Sun and 4.06 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14327 |
| Provisional designation | 1980 FE2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.23 km (#5,596 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.157 |
| Rotation period | 5.70 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.1 |
| Orbital period | 5.20 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.00 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.51 – 3.49 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.163 |
| Inclination | 8.68° |
| 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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