(10937) Ferris Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 August 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
William D. Ferris (b. 1961), a video producer-director at Northern Arizona University, has been an assiduous and successful observer for LONEOS since 1998.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Ferris is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ferris is 3.19 au from the Sun and 2.96 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10937 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 QW54 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 10.3 km (#4,919 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.200 |
| Rotation period | 8.70 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.65 |
| Orbital period | 5.78 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.16 – 3.28 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0190 |
| Inclination | 4.72° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.16 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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