Discovery date 14 November 1987 Aphelion 2.5610 AU (383.12 Gm) Eccentricity 0.14195 Inclination 2.9149° Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Observation arc 23896 days (65.42 yr) Semi-major axis 2.2427 AU (335.50 Gm) Discovered 14 November 1987 Argument of perihelion 129.7° Discovery site Kushiro Observatory | |
Discoverers Hiroshi Kaneda, Seiji Ueda | ||
6235 Burney is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered on November 14, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro. 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).
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