(14277) Parsa Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 February 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Steve Parsa for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Parsa is a teacher at the Palos Verdes Intermediate School, Palos Verdes, California.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Parsa is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Parsa is 2.87 au from the Sun and 1.88 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14277 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 CS13 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.90 km (#15,451 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.304 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.8 |
| Orbital period | 4.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.80 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.66 – 2.94 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0504 |
| Inclination | 3.90° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.68 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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