4942 Munroe
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| Discovery [1] | |
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| Discovered by | H. Debehogne |
| Discovery site | ESO (La Silla) |
| Discovery date | 24 February 1987 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 4942 Munroe |
| 1987 DU6; 1955 MS 1971 GE; 1990 CB |
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| main-belt (Eunomia family) |
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| Orbital characteristics [1] | |
| Epoch 27 June 2015 (JD 2457200.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 59.58 yr (21,761 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.5015 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.9004 AU |
| 2.2009 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1365 |
| 3.27 yr (1192.6 days) | |
| 127.90° | |
| Inclination | 3.8347° |
| 278.16° | |
| 11.136° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.8840 AU |
| Physical characteristics | |
| X (SMASSII) | |
| 13.4 mag | |
4942 Munroe (1987 DU6) is a main-belt minor planet[2] discovered by Henri Debehogne at La Silla Observatory in Chile on February 24, 1987.
In 2013, it was named after Randall Munroe, a former NASA roboticist and the author of the xkcd webcomic.[2] The name was chosen by xkcd readers Lewis Hulbert and Jordan Zhu.[3]
Munroe calculates that the asteroid is between 6 and 10 kilometers in diameter, comparable in size to the Chicxulub asteroid.[4]
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