(14154) Negrelli Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 26 September 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.

David Negrelli mentored a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Youth Science Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition. He teaches at the Paul W. Bell Middle School, Miami, Florida.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Negrelli is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Negrelli is 2.59 au from the Sun and 3.04 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number14154
Provisional designation1998 SZ106
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter4.96 km (#10,699 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.137
Rotation period2.82 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)14.58
Orbital period4.46 years
Semi-major axis2.71 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.54 – 2.88 au
Eccentricity0.0625
Inclination2.75°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.56 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also named after someone called David

Also discovered on 26 September 1998

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