(4036) Whitehouse Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 21 February 1987 by H. Debehogne at La Silla.

As a science journalist and particularly as BBC Online's Science Editor David Whitehouse (b. 1956) has had an important influence on science writing for an international public. His Aliens beneath the Ice won a U.K. Glaxo award in 1998, and he received the European Internet Journalist of the Year award in 2002.Naming citation (20060413/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Whitehouse is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Whitehouse is 3.21 au from the Sun and 3.02 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	4036
Provisional designation	1987 DW5
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	11.0 km (#4,550 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.110
Rotation period	702 hours
Spectral type	Cg
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.12
Orbital period	4.69 years
Semi-major axis	2.80 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.39 – 3.21 au
Eccentricity	0.147
Inclination	4.68°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.41 au

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

Also discovered on 21 February 1987

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