(10914) Tucker Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 December 1997 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
Roy Tucker (b. 1951), an instrumentalist at Kitt Peak National Observatory, is owner and chief observer of southern Arizona's Goodricke-Pigott Observatory, where he has discovered two Atens, one Apollo and a comet.Naming citation (19991123/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Tucker is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tucker is 2.92 au from the Sun and 3.74 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10914 |
| Provisional designation | 1997 YQ14 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.74 km (#6,837 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0740 |
| Rotation period | 8.07 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.07 |
| Orbital period | 5.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.78 – 3.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.127 |
| Inclination | 0.544° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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