(23046) Stevengordon Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 December 1999 by LINEAR at Socorro.
Steven Gordon mentored a finalist in the 2007 Intel Science Talent Search (STS), a science competition for high school seniors. He teaches at the Garden City High School, Garden City, New York.Naming citation (20070303/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Stevengordon is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Stevengordon is 2.90 au from the Sun and 3.19 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23046 |
| Provisional designation | 1999 XN28 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.64 km (#13,594 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.334 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.34 |
| Orbital period | 4.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.85 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 3.02 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0567 |
| Inclination | 3.05° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.70 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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