Background: |
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Minorplanet: | yes |
Discovered: | 22 October 1998 |
Alt Names: | |
Epoch: | 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Observation Arc: | 22044 days (60.35 yr) |
Aphelion: | 2.6001abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Perihelion: | 1.8433AU |
Semimajor: | 2.2217AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.17032 |
Period: | 3.31 yr (1209.6 d) |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 8.1801° |
Asc Node: | 62.806° |
Arg Peri: | 177.42° |
Moid: | 0.829914AU |
Rotation: | 2.52735abbr=onNaNabbr=on |
Abs Magnitude: | 14.2 |
is a main-belt binary asteroid. It was discovered through the Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program at the Xinglong Station in the Chinese province of Hebei on October 22, 1998. A moon was discovered orbiting the asteroid in 2010. The moon has an orbital period of almost exactly a day, and is tidally locked with the asteroid.[1]