(196807) Beshore Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 September 2003 by D. Healy at Junk Bond.
Ed Beshore (b. 1954) is operations manager and lead software engineer for the Near-Earth Object search programs at the Catalina, Siding Spring and Mt. Lemmon surveys. These surveys discovered more than half of the NEOs found during 2005--2007.Naming citation (20090209/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Beshore is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Beshore is 3.32 au from the Sun and 4.12 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 196807 |
| Provisional designation | 2003 SB221 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.34 |
| Orbital period | 5.28 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.03 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.75 – 3.32 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0940 |
| Inclination | 11.0° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.76 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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