(10284) Damienlemay Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 August 1981 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.
Damien Lemay (b. 1943) earned an undergraduate degree in physics from Laval University in Quebec, Canada, and worked as a telecommunications engineer. He founded a local astronomy club in Rimouski and served a term as RASC national President. He won the RASC Chant Medal, mainly for a photographic atlas of the northern sky, made with a 0.14-m Schmidt camera.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #15, 7), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Damienlemay is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Damienlemay is 2.92 au from the Sun and 2.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10284 |
| Provisional designation | 1981 QY2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.84 km (#7,830 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.181 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.29 |
| Orbital period | 4.88 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.88 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.83 – 2.92 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0165 |
| Inclination | 2.89° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.82 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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