(10444) de Hevesy Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Hungarian-Swedish physicist George de Hevesy (1885-1966) was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1943 for his work on the use of isotopes as tracers in the study of chemical processes. Working with Dirk Coster in Copenhagen in 1923, he discovered the element hafnium. The name was proposed by W. A. Fröger.Naming citation (20010705/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where de Hevesy is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: de Hevesy is 3.05 au from the Sun and 3.40 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10444 |
| Provisional designation | 3290 T-2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.0 km (#3,713 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0590 |
| Rotation period | 26.7 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.32 |
| Orbital period | 5.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.04 – 3.33 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0449 |
| Inclination | 6.26° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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