(5536) Honeycutt Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 August 1955 by Indiana University at Brooklyn.
Kent Honeycutt (b. 1940), on the faculty of Indiana University, has made fundamental contributions to our understanding of the structure of accretion disks, cataclysmic variables and cool stars, as well as to the design and construction of innovative instrumentation, including spectrographs and robotic observatories.Naming citation (20040306/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Honeycutt is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Honeycutt is 2.04 au from the Sun and 1.12 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5536 |
| Provisional designation | 1955 QN |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.58 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.09 |
| Orbital period | 3.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.25 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.04 – 2.46 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0938 |
| Inclination | 6.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.05 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Kent
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Also discovered on 23 August 1955
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