Discovery date 19 March 1999 Observation arc 10191 days (27.90 yr) Orbits Sun Discovery site Anderson Mesa Station MPC designation 11409 | Alternative names 1999 FD9 Discovered 19 March 1999 Named after Jack Horkheimer Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Aphelion 3.5665385 AU (533.54657 Gm) Perihelion 2.8162184 AU (421.30028 Gm) Semi-major axis 3.191378 AU (477.4234 Gm) Discoverer Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search | ||
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.
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