Discovery date 3 May 1951 Minor planet category main-belt Discovered 3 May 1951 Orbits Sun Discovery site Goethe Link Observatory Discoverer Indiana Asteroid Program | MPC designation 1952 Hesburgh Observation arc 75.94 yr (27738 days) Absolute magnitude 10.32 Named after Theodore Hesburgh Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Discovered by Indiana University
(Indiana Asteroid Program) Alternative names 1951 JC · 1936 ND
1939 AB · 1940 GQ
1954 XC · 1974 KQ | ||
1952 Hesburgh, provisionally designated 1951 JC, is an asteroid of the main-belt, discovered on 3 May 1951 at Goethe Link Observatory, United States by the Indiana Asteroid Program, which discovered more than a 100 minor planets during 1949–1967. The relatively bright asteroid has a diameter of about 36 kilometers.
It is named for Theodore M. Hesburgh (1917–2015), who was president of the University of Notre Dame in Notre Dame, Indiana. He was also a member of the National Science Board and played a decisive role in the founding the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory in Chile during the period of inflation in the 1960s.
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