(9486) Utemorrah Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 24 September 1960 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.

Named for the Australian Aboriginal poet Daisy Utemorrah (1922–1993), teller of Dreamtime stories in the Kimberley: ‘Words are my gun and my spear’.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 3, #2, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Utemorrah is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Utemorrah is 2.18 au from the Sun and 2.73 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	9486
Provisional designation	6130 P-L
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	5.15 km (#10,350 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0880
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.92
Orbital period	3.81 years
Semi-major axis	2.44 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.18 – 2.69 au
Eccentricity	0.104
Inclination	4.23°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.20 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

Also discovered on 24 September 1960

More named asteroids discovered by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T.

All 958

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