Tags: Asteroid.
13253 Stejneger (provisional designation: 1998 OM13) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory in Chile on July 26 1998. It is named after Leonhard Hess Stejneger a Norwegian-born American ornithologist herpetologist and zoologist of the 19th and 20th centuries.