(14694) Skurat Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 January 2000 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of Sister Karen Skurat for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Skurat is a teacher at the St. Rita School, Hamden, Connecticut.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Skurat is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Skurat is 1.91 au from the Sun and 1.10 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14694 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 AR145 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.91 km (#15,432 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.209 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.29 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.85 – 2.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.188 |
| Inclination | 5.33° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.850 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 6 January 2000
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