9891 Stephensmith (1995 XN1) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on December 15, 1995 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
The complete text of the IAU Citation for 9891 Stephensmith is: "Stephen Smith published The Shallow Sky Bulletin from 1986 to 2000. He published cometary ephemerides in the SSB and distributed them promptly for newly-discovered comets."[1]
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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | T. Kobayashi |
| Discovery site | Oizumi |
| Discovery date | December 15, 1995 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 9891 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1995 XN1 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.9434348 |
| Peri | 2.2425906 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1351409 |
| Orbital period | 1525.1247785 |
| Mean anomaly | 192.63485 |
| Inclination | 14.12457 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 72.56033 |
| Argument of peri | 174.77120 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.7 |
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