6235 Burney
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Seiji Ueda, Hiroshi Kaneda |
| Discovery date | 14 November 1987 |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 23896 days (65.42 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.5610 AU (383.12 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9243 AU (287.87 Gm) |
| 2.2427 AU (335.50 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.14195 |
| 3.36 yr (1226.7 d) | |
| 125.64° | |
| 0° 17m 36.492s / day | |
| Inclination | 2.9149° |
| 283.54° | |
| 129.70° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.935995 AU (140.0229 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.77361 AU (414.926 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.618 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 15.515 h (0.6465 d) | |
| 13.9 | |
6235 Burney is a main-belt asteroid that was discovered on November 14, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro. It is named after Venetia Phair (née Burney) (1918–2009) who, as a girl of eleven, first suggested the name of "Pluto" for the dwarf planet (which at the time was considered a planet).
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