(14121) Stuwe Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 August 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Joachim A. Stüwe (b. 1958), of the Astronomisches Institut, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, has catalogued dark clouds and globules in the southern Milky Way and pioneered the development of distance determination algorithms for interstellar clouds based on automatic star counts.Naming citation (20030318/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Stuwe is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Stuwe is 2.59 au from the Sun and 3.42 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14121 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QM54 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.71 km (#13,441 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.323 |
| Rotation period | 4.67 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.05 |
| Orbital period | 3.33 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.23 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.85 – 2.62 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.173 |
| Inclination | 3.99° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.844 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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