11409 Horkheimer
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovery date | 19 March 1999 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 11409 |
Named after | Jack Horkheimer |
| 1999 FD9 | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 10191 days (27.90 yr) |
| Aphelion | 3.5665385 AU (533.54657 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.8162184 AU (421.30028 Gm) |
| 3.191378 AU (477.4234 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1175542 |
| 5.70 yr (2082.4 d) | |
| 330.93436° | |
| 0° 10m 22.356s / day | |
| Inclination | 2.298708° |
| 115.95379° | |
| 75.44493° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.81721 AU (271.851 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 1.3917 AU (208.20 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.185 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 12.8 | |
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11409 Horkheimer (1999 FD9) is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 19, 1999, by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station. It is named in honor of Jack F. Horkheimer (1938 - 2010), former executive director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, who is best known as the creator and host of the television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer.
References
- ↑ "11409 Horkheimer (1999 FD9)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
External links
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 11409 Horkheimer
- Congressional Record of the Asteroid Naming in Honor of Jack "Star Hustler" Horkheimer
- 11409 Horkheimer at the JPL Small-Body Database
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