(14678) Pinney Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Stacie Pinney for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Pinney is a teacher at the Annunciation Catholic Academy, Altamonte, Florida.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pinney is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pinney is 2.58 au from the Sun and 3.37 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14678 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XN33 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.53 km (#13,884 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.247 |
| Rotation period | 5.08 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.89 |
| Orbital period | 3.78 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.43 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.96 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.192 |
| Inclination | 1.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.968 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 6 December 1999
- (13840) Wayneanderson
- (13841) Blankenship
- (13843) Cowenbrown
- (14224) Gaede
- (16113) Ahmed
- (16114) Alyono
- (16116) Balakrishnan
- (16117) Herbst
- (16142) Leung
- (20713) Sheward
- (21990) Garretyazzie
- (21991) Zane