(164792) Owen Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 March 1999 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
Russell Owen (b. 1959) is an American engineer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for designing the fiber feed for the SDSS spectrograph and the software that controls the SDSS 2.5-m telescope.Naming citation (20120406/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Owen is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Owen is 2.07 au from the Sun and 3.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 164792 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 FD78 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.82 |
| Orbital period | 3.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.06 – 2.47 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0888 |
| Inclination | 6.46° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.06 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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