(10954) Spiegel Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Beate Spiegel (b. 1960) serves as head of the office of the Klaus Tschira Foundation. She was instrumental in supporting the project “Digitization of the Palomar-Leiden Survey and the T-n Trojan Surveys” of the van Houtens. The name was suggested by L. D. Schmadel.Naming citation (20060613/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Spiegel is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Spiegel is 2.96 au from the Sun and 1.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10954 |
| Provisional designation | 4545 P-L |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.33 km (#9,998 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.206 |
| Rotation period | 5.29 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.02 |
| Orbital period | 5.05 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.95 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.85 – 3.04 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0313 |
| Inclination | 1.39° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.84 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Beate
All asteroids named after someone called Beate
Also discovered on 24 September 1960
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- (1744) Harriet
- (1776) Kuiper
- (1777) Gehrels
- (1795) Woltjer
- (1808) Bellerophon
- (1809) Prometheus
- (1810) Epimetheus
- (1811) Bruwer
- (1812) Gilgamesh
- (1846) Bengt
- (1868) Thersites