11409 Horkheimer
| Discovery and designation | |
|---|---|
| Discovery date | , |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 11409 |
Named after | Jack Horkheimer |
| 1999 FD9 | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Aphelion | 3.5624274 |
| Perihelion | 2.8135714 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1174492 |
| 2079.1019758 | |
| 204.51619 | |
| Inclination | 2.29868 |
| 115.96408 | |
| 77.19065 | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 12.9 | |
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11409 Horkheimer (1999 FD9) is a main-belt asteroid discovered March 19, 1999 by the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search at the Anderson Mesa Station. It is named in honor of Jack F. Horkheimer (1938 - 2010), former executive director of the Miami Space-Transit Planetarium, who is best known as the creator and host of the television program Jack Horkheimer: Star Gazer.