(9291) Alanburdick Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 17 August 1982 by Oak Ridge Observatory at Harvard.

Alan Burdick (b. 1965), a student of the natural world, is author of numerous popular magazine articles, including one about his efforts to get something in the universe named after him. This in turn helped to land him a writing job at the new Rose Center at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.Naming citation (20000320/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Alanburdick is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alanburdick is 2.91 au from the Sun and 2.70 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	9291
Provisional designation	1982 QO
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Rotation period	3.11 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.32
Orbital period	5.36 years
Semi-major axis	3.06 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.76 – 3.37 au
Eccentricity	0.0993
Inclination	10.1°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.77 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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