(8745) Delaney Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1998 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Named in honor of William P. Delaney, director's fellow at M.I.T. Lincoln Laboratory. This is a donation of the fruit of an optical search program to an expert in radar.Naming citation (19990202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Delaney is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Delaney is 2.65 au from the Sun and 1.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8745 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 FO65 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.99 km (#8,939 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0840 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.56 |
| Orbital period | 4.32 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.65 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.54 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0416 |
| Inclination | 3.64° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.55 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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