(9387) Tweedledee Inner Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 February 1994 by Shiozawa, H., Urata, T. at Fujieda.
Tweedledee was of the twins in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There. When Alice meets him, he is standing under a tree with his arm round the neck of his brother Tweedledum. The name was suggested by T. Urata.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #11, 5), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tweedledee is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tweedledee is 2.06 au from the Sun and 2.95 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9387 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 CA |
| Orbit class | Inner Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.56 km (#11,510 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.225 |
| Rotation period | 3.53 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.99 |
| Orbital period | 2.70 years |
| Semi-major axis | 1.94 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.77 – 2.11 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0892 |
| Inclination | 21.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.806 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Lewis
- (6042) Cheshirecat
- (6916) Lewispearce
- (8889) Mockturtle
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- (17681) Tweedledum
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- (37609) LaVelle
- (81790) Lewislove
- (213629) Binford
- (270553) Loureed
- (399979) Lewseaman
- (508440) Lewishamilton
All asteroids named after someone called Lewis
Also discovered on 2 February 1994
More named asteroids discovered by Shiozawa, H., Urata, T.
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