Minor Planet (10047) Davidchapman

Minor Planet (10047) Davidchapman
The local astronomical community honoured me by successfully suggesting my name be attached to minor planet 10047 by the International Astronomical Union.
(10047) Davidchapman is well-behaved and promises never to bother Earthlings!
Here’s the citation www.minorplanet...
*Discovered in Chile 1986-08-28
*Orbit is 2 1/3 times wider than Earth’s (between Mars & Jupiter).
*Orbit is nearly circular.
*Orbits the Sun every 3.6 years.
*About 5 km across.
*Colour of aged asphalt
*Just one of ~23,000 named minor planets-more than 1.1 million have been detected

[@davidpianosi4512]

Congratulations David!.
I have a friend out here in Belleville Ontario who also had an asteroid named after him recently.
He's been a bit out of astronomy for the last couple of years but I will forward him this video.
I'm sure trying to take a picture of your own asteroid would in Tyson back into his Observatory!

[@moonmonkey9595]

Congratulations David that’s an amazing well deserved Honour I will go searching for this too when it comes around 🇬🇧🔭🇨🇦