Discovery date 30 March 1952 Minor planet category main-belt · (outer) Absolute magnitude 11.4 Discovery site Goethe Link Observatory Discoverer Indiana Asteroid Program | MPC designation 1824 Haworth Discovered 30 March 1952 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program) Named after Leland J. Haworth
(physicist) Alternative names 1952 FM · 1942 GC
1951 CA · 1952 HW
1957 HQ · 1957 LA
1974 XA | ||
1824 Haworth, provisional designation 1952 FM, is an asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 14 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 March 1952, by Indiana University's Indiana Asteroid Program at its Goethe Link Observatory near Brooklyn, Indiana, United States.
Haworth orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.8–3.0 AU once every 4 years and 11 months (1,788 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.04 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic. Its first precovery was taken at Lowell Observatory in 1906, extending the body's observation arc by 46 years prior to its official discovery observation.
According to the survey carried out by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer with its subsequent NEOWISE mission, Haworth measures 14.17 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.266. As of 2017, its composition, rotation period and shape remain unknown.
It was named in honor of American particle physicist Leland John Haworth (1904–1979), a graduate of Indiana University and second director of the National Science Foundation. His long and varied career included teaching and serving as member of the Atomic Energy Commission, as vice-president and president of Associated Universities, Inc., and as director of the Brookhaven National Laboratory. His negotiations were instrumental for the funding of a 4-meter telescope at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory. Naming citation was published before November 1977 (M.P.C. 4156).