(4259) McCoy Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 16 September 1988 by S. J. Bus at Cerro Tololo.

Timothy J. McCoy (b. 1964) is a curator of the national meteorite collection at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington. His research has been crucial for understanding the complex heating and melting events on the parent body of the acapulcoite and lodranite meteorites.Naming citation (20000523/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

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Where McCoy is today

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Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: McCoy is 3.02 au from the Sun and 3.50 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number4259
Provisional designation1988 SB3
Orbit classMain-belt Asteroid
Diameter9.23 km (#5,599 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo0.189
Absolute magnitude (H)12.5
Orbital period4.92 years
Semi-major axis2.89 au
Perihelion – aphelion2.75 – 3.03 au
Eccentricity0.0481
Inclination2.91°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)1.77 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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Also discovered on 16 September 1988

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