(8084) Dallas Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 February 1989 by M. Koishikawa at Ayashi.
Named for the city in Texas, Dallas is the international sister city of Sendai, Japan, affiliated since 1997. Dallas, popularly called “BIG D”, is among the principal cities of the American southwest.Naming citation (19990202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Dallas is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dallas is 2.39 au from the Sun and 3.20 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8084 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 CL1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.1 km (#3,686 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0430 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.1 |
| Orbital period | 5.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.07 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.39 – 3.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.221 |
| Inclination | 2.15° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.40 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.