(23437) Sima Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 27 September 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.
Josef Šíma (1891-1971) was a Czech imaginative, abstract and surrealist painter, who lived in France from 1921. His sources of inspiration spanned nature, crystals, cosmic visions, landscape and female bodies, to fascination by stories of ancient mythology such as Falling Icarus or Leda and the Swan.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-11-14), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Sima is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sima is 2.73 au from the Sun and 3.21 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23437 |
| Provisional designation | 1984 SJ1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.69 km (#15,877 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.254 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.56 |
| Orbital period | 3.39 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.26 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.78 – 2.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.213 |
| Inclination | 4.67° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.767 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 27 September 1984
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- (3732) Vavra
- (3932) Edshay
- (4082) Swann
- (4663) Falta
- (5203) Pavarotti
- (6230) Fram
- (8336) Safarik