(9165) Raup Inner Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 27 September 1987 by Shoemaker, C. S., Shoemaker, E. M. at Palomar.

David M. Raup (b. 1933), paleontologist and biological historian at the University of Chicago, is a master of quantitative approaches to the fossil record. With his colleague Jack Sepkowski, he has suggested new imaginative theories for the development and disappearance of life.Naming citation (19991123/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Raup is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Raup is 1.79 au from the Sun and 1.17 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	9165
Provisional designation	1987 SJ3
Orbit class	Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	4.84 km (#10,938 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.329
Rotation period	1,320 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.72
Orbital period	2.80 years
Semi-major axis	1.99 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.79 – 2.18 au
Eccentricity	0.0975
Inclination	24.6°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.804 au

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

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