(9069) Hovland Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 July 1993 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.
Larry E. Hovland (b. 1947) is a talented senior engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory responsible for the Raman Spectrometer Electronics and the Mars 2005 Op-Nav camera electronics. He generously provided his expertise to the discoverer in her early efforts to convert from photographic to electronic detection methods.Naming citation (20010509/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hovland is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hovland is 1.92 au from the Sun and 2.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9069 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 OV |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 4.22 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.38 |
| Orbital period | 2.65 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.91 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.69 – 2.14 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.118 |
| Inclination | 19.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.701 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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