(11833) Dixon Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 September 1985 by Spacewatch at Kitt Peak.
Roger Dixon (b. 1947) is a staff physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, and Project Manager for the Cryogenic Dark Matter Search. He is in charge of and teaches in the Saturday morning physics program for high school students.Naming citation (20020427/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Dixon is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dixon is 2.11 au from the Sun and 1.92 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 11833 |
| Provisional designation | 1985 RW |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.60 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.43 |
| Orbital period | 2.75 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.96 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.82 – 2.11 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0752 |
| Inclination | 19.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.884 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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