(4599) Rowan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 5 September 1985 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.
Michael Rowan-Robinson (b. 1942), of Imperial College, London, led the team evaluating the completeness and reliability of the IRAS deep-sky infrared survey. His work has been mainly extragalactic, but he used the survey to set a strict limit on the existence of undiscovered Jupiter-like planets beyond the orbit of Neptune.Naming citation (20060613/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Rowan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Rowan is 3.56 au from the Sun and 4.56 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 4599 |
| Provisional designation | 1985 RZ2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.0 km (#3,719 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0870 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.26 |
| Orbital period | 5.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.06 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.53 – 3.60 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.175 |
| Inclination | 3.46° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.53 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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