(23060) Shepherd Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 7 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Karen Shepherd mentored a finalist in the 2005 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. She teaches at the Plano Senior High School, Plano, Texas.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Shepherd is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shepherd is 2.41 au from the Sun and 3.36 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23060 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XV46 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.11 |
| Orbital period | 4.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.39 – 2.81 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0817 |
| Inclination | 1.86° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.39 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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