(9474) Cassadrury Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 August 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Cassa Frances Drury (b. 1999) is a finalist in the 2012 Broadcom MASTERS, a math and science competition for middle-school students, for her biochemistry, medicine, health science and microbiology project. She attends the St. Francis of Assisi, Louisville, Kentucky.Naming citation (20121029/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Cassadrury is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Cassadrury is 1.91 au from the Sun and 1.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9474 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QK15 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.57 km (#13,767 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.152 |
| Rotation period | 2.80 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.37 |
| Orbital period | 3.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.29 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.87 – 2.71 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.184 |
| Inclination | 5.03° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.866 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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