(9087) Neff Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 29 September 1995 by Klet at Klet.

Named for Vladimír Neff and Ondřej Neff. Vladimír Neff (1909-1983) was an outstanding Czech writer, well-known for his five-part chronicle, spanning the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, of the Prague entrepreneur family, the Borns and the Nedobyls. His last work was a great ironic novel The Vesture of Mr. de Balzac. Ondřej Neff (b. 1945) is a Czech writer of science fiction, a journalist and son of Vladimír Neff. In 1996 he founded the first Czech independent Internet daily newspaper called Neviditelný pes, or “The Invisible Dog”. He continues this work today. Name proposed by discoverers J. Ticha, M. Tichy and Z. Moravec.Naming citation (19990402/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

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Where Neff is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Neff is 2.20 au from the Sun and 1.20 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	9087
Provisional designation	1995 SN3
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	2.62 km (#16,019 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.372
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.52
Orbital period	3.45 years
Semi-major axis	2.28 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.89 – 2.67 au
Eccentricity	0.172
Inclination	4.71°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.878 au

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

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