(10683) Carter Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 June 1980 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M. at Palomar.
Carter Worth Roberts (b. 1946), president of the Eastbay Astronomical Society, is known for superlative dabbling in photography and puns and his ability to fix things. He collaborated on a safe solar-eclipse-viewing booklet and helped restore “Rachel”, the 0.5-m Brashear refractor for the Chabot Space and Science Center.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Carter is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Carter is 2.51 au from the Sun and 2.46 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10683 |
| Provisional designation | 1980 LY |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.37 km (#14,290 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.319 |
| Rotation period | 75.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.41 |
| Orbital period | 3.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.82 – 2.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.158 |
| Inclination | 4.53° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.807 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.