(11678) Brevard Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 25 February 1998 by I. P. Griffin at Cocoa.
Brevard County, Florida, is the location of the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory, from where this object was discovered. Brevard County is also home to the Kennedy Space Center, the launch site of Galileo, NEAR and many other manned and unmanned missions of space exploration.Naming citation (19991123/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Brevard is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brevard is 2.67 au from the Sun and 2.09 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 11678 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 DT10 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.72 km (#13,398 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.296 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.32 |
| Orbital period | 3.87 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.89 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.174 |
| Inclination | 2.21° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.03 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.