(55397) Hackman Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 September 2001 by R. A. Tucker at Goodricke-Pigott.
Eugene Allen Hackman (b. 1930) is an American actor and novelist. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1971 movie The French Connection and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in the 1992 movie Unforgiven. With Daniel Lenihan, he has written three historical fiction novels and also two solo novels.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #12, 14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hackman is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hackman is 2.91 au from the Sun and 3.81 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 55397 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 SY288 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.78 km (#6,802 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0540 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.25 |
| Orbital period | 4.48 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.72 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.50 – 2.94 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0802 |
| Inclination | 6.61° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.51 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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