(6117) Brevardastro Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 12 February 1985 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.

Brevard is a county on the east coast of Florida and is known as the “space coast”. Brevard county is the home of the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, where many of the early manned space flights originated. The Brevard Astronomical Society is a very active amateur astronomy community in Brevard county.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2017-01-12), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Brevardastro is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Brevardastro is 2.34 au from the Sun and 1.49 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	6117
Provisional designation	1985 CZ1
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	5.20 km (#10,246 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.350
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.57
Orbital period	3.59 years
Semi-major axis	2.34 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.19 – 2.50 au
Eccentricity	0.0668
Inclination	6.13°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.21 au

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

Also discovered on 12 February 1985

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