(13843) Cowenbrown Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of C. Owen Brown for mentoring a finalist in the 2001 Discovery Young Scientist Challenge (DYSC), a middle school science competition. Brown is a teacher at the Alexandria Country Day School, Alexandria, Louisiana.Naming citation (20011002/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Cowenbrown is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Cowenbrown is 2.09 au from the Sun and 2.87 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13843 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XQ34 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.54 km (#16,186 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.208 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.57 |
| Orbital period | 3.32 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.37 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0650 |
| Inclination | 1.38° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Owen
All asteroids named after someone called Owen
Also discovered on 6 December 1999
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- (13841) Blankenship
- (14224) Gaede
- (14678) Pinney
- (16113) Ahmed
- (16114) Alyono
- (16116) Balakrishnan
- (16117) Herbst
- (16142) Leung
- (20713) Sheward
- (21990) Garretyazzie
- (21991) Zane