(819712) Tezel Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 June 2014 by EURONEAR at Roque de los Muchachos.
Tunç Tezel (b. 1977) is a Turkish civil engineer, eclipse chaser, astrophotographer, and member of the Turkish Astronomy Society. Well-known for pictures of skyscapes and long-term motions of planets including retrograde motions and analemmas, he is also the creator of Tutulemma, an analemma photograph that includes a solar eclipse.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 6, #8, 13), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tezel is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tezel is 3.10 au from the Sun and 2.15 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 819712 |
| Provisional designation | 2014 LL32 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 17.04 |
| Orbital period | 5.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.16 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.94 – 3.38 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0695 |
| Inclination | 7.79° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.92 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.