(134131) Skipowens Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 January 2005 by CSS at Catalina.
Skip Owens (b. 1975) is the NASA LSP Integration Engineer for the OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission. He was also a LSP Flight Design Engineer for over a dozen NASA missions. Before starting with LSP in 2001, he worked spacecraft mission design at Goddard Spaceflight Center for the EO-1 and WMAP missions.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-08-18), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Skipowens is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Skipowens is 2.75 au from the Sun and 3.69 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 134131 |
| Provisional designation | 2005 AT11 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.94 km (#12,898 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.114 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.45 |
| Orbital period | 5.23 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.01 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 3.28 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0897 |
| Inclination | 4.25° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.75 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 6 January 2005
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- (134125) Shaundaly
- (134127) Basher
- (134134) Kristoferdrozd
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