(9829) Murillo Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 19 September 1973 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Bartolomé Estéban Murillo (1618-1682) created many religious paintings for churches. The painter from Seville is famous for his genre pictures of children that were poor but happy, and these are imitated even today.Naming citation (19990402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Murillo is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Murillo is 3.95 au from the Sun and 4.21 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9829 |
| Provisional designation | 1973 SJ1 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 25.9 km (#1,617 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0420 |
| Rotation period | 21.8 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.24 |
| Orbital period | 7.87 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.96 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.45 – 4.47 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.129 |
| Inclination | 2.64° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.45 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Bartolome
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