Back 4942 Munroe (كويكب) ARZ (4942) Манро CE (4942) Munroe German 4942 Munroe Esperanto (4942) Munroe Spanish ۴۹۴۲ مونرو Persian (4942) Munroe French 4942 Munroe Hungarian (4942) Մանրո Armenian 4942 Munroe Italian
 Orbital diagram of Munroe | |
| Discovery[1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | H. Debehogne |
| Discovery site | La Silla Obs. |
| Discovery date | 24 February 1987 |
| Designations | |
| (4942) Munroe | |
Named after | Randall Munroe (American cartoonist)[2] |
| 1987 DU6 · 1955 MS 1971 GE · 1990 CB | |
| main-belt · (inner) | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 61.76 yr (22,559 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.5000 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.9026 AU |
| 2.2013 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1357 |
| 3.27 yr (1,193 days) | |
| 9.2509° | |
| 0° 18m 6.48s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.8333° |
| 278.09° | |
| 11.227° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 3.453±0.139 km[3] | |
| 0.936±0.183[3] | |
| SMASS = X[1] | |
| 13.5[1] | |
4942 Munroe, provisional designation 1987 DU6, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 3 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 24 February 1987, by Belgian astronomer Henri Debehogne at ESO's La Silla Observatory in northern Chile, and later named after American cartoonist and former NASA roboticist Randall Munroe.[2]
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