11409 Horkheimer
Discovery | |
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Discovery date | , |
Designations | |
MPC designation | 11409 |
Named after
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Jack Horkheimer |
1999 FD9 | |
Orbital characteristics | |
Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
Aphelion | 3.5624274 |
Perihelion | 2.8135714 |
Eccentricity | 0.1174492 |
2079.1019758 | |
204.51619 | |
Inclination | 2.29868 |
115.96408 | |
77.19065 | |
Physical characteristics | |
12.9 | |
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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
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External links
- JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 11409 Horkheimer
- Congressional Record of the Asteroid Naming in Honor of Jack "Star Hustler" Horkheimer
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