(179223) Tonytyson Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 October 2001 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
J. Anthony Tyson (b. 1940) is an American physicist and astronomer. In the late 1970s he applied CCDs to astronomy, discovering the faint blue galaxies. He started a project to build a next-generation sky survey, later named Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time, and directed it for 15 years.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #2, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tonytyson is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tonytyson is 2.75 au from the Sun and 3.74 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 179223 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 TA257 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.06 km (#12,583 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0390 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.34 |
| Orbital period | 4.55 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.74 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.74 – 2.75 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.00184 |
| Inclination | 5.96° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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