(14960) Yule Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 May 1996 by P. G. Comba at Prescott.
George Udny Yule (1871-1951), statistician, lecturer at University College, London, and fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, worked on regression and correlation, time series and epidemiology. His book A Statistical Study of Literary Style (1944) was a pioneering endeavor at a quantitative analysis of literary style.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yule is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yule is 2.58 au from the Sun and 1.65 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 14960 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 KO |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.52 |
| Orbital period | 4.11 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.57 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.40 – 2.73 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0640 |
| Inclination | 0.966° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.39 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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