6235 Burney
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Seiji Ueda, Hiroshi Kaneda |
| Discovery date | 14 November 1987 |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 23896 days (65.42 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.5610 AU (383.12 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9243 AU (287.87 Gm) |
| 2.2427 AU (335.50 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.14195 |
| 3.36 yr (1226.7 d) | |
| 125.64° | |
| 0° 17m 36.492s / day | |
| Inclination | 2.9149° |
| 283.54° | |
| 129.70° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.935995 AU (140.0229 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.77361 AU (414.926 Gm) |
| TJupiter | 3.618 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 15.515 h (0.6465 d) | |
| 13.9 | |
6235 Burney[2] is a main-belt asteroid[3] that was discovered on November 14, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.[note 1] It is named after Venetia Phair (née Burney) (1918–2009) who, as a girl of eleven, first suggested the name of "Pluto" for the dwarf planet (which at the time was considered a planet).
Notes
- ^ The naming of the asteroid "Burney" was not suggested by the asteroid discoverers. It was designated by the Working Group for Small Bodies Nomenclature (SBN) of Division III (Planetary Systems Sciences) of the International Astronomical Union.
References
- ^ "6235 Burney (1987 VB)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 13 April 2016.
- ^ MPC 55720, Minor Planet Circulars, 2005 December 15.
- ^ JPL Small-Body Database Browser
