(10037) Raypickard Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 January 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.
Ray Pickard (b. 1967), of Bathurst, NSW (Australia), is a teacher, academic, and leading expert on meteorite identification and analysis. He owns and runs Bathurst Observatory in central New South Wales, where he hosts a small museum displaying one of the largest private meteorite collections in the world.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #3, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Raypickard is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Raypickard is 2.53 au from the Sun and 1.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10037 |
| Provisional designation | 1984 BQ |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.45 km (#9,795 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.342 |
| Rotation period | 6.75 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.11 |
| Orbital period | 3.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.39 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.24 – 2.54 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0628 |
| Inclination | 7.78° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.25 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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Also discovered on 26 January 1984
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