(13715) Steed Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Jared Benjamin Steed (b. 1988) is a finalist in the 2002 Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC), a middle school science competition, for his environmental sciences project. He attends the Buckeye Valley Middle School, Delaware, Ohio.Naming citation (20021021/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Steed is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Steed is 2.83 au from the Sun and 3.70 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13715 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QK39 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.03 km (#10,561 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0390 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.18 |
| Orbital period | 4.18 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.59 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 2.99 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.152 |
| Inclination | 5.88° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.21 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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