(14517) Monitoma Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 June 1996 by P. Pravec at Ondrejov.
Monika Pravcová (b. 1976), sister of the discoverer, and Tomáš Kneslík (b. 1977) fell in love in the year of the discovery of this minor planet and married in 2000 when it was numbered.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Monitoma is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Monitoma is 3.10 au from the Sun and 3.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14517 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 LJ1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 8.22 km (#6,380 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0660 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.0 |
| Orbital period | 4.62 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.77 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.42 – 3.13 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.127 |
| Inclination | 14.4° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.43 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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