Minorplanet: | yes |
Background: |
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Discovered: | 18 December 2001 |
Epoch: | 23 March 2018 (JD 2458200.5) |
Uncertainty: | 0 |
Observation Arc: | 15.92 yr (5,815 d) |
Perihelion: | 2.2404 AU |
Semimajor: | 2.5810 AU |
Eccentricity: | 0.1320 |
Period: | 4.15 yr (1,515 d) |
Mean Motion: | / day |
Inclination: | 9.6001° |
Asc Node: | 315.61° |
Arg Peri: | 18.718° |
Albedo: | 0.20 |
Abs Magnitude: | 15.9 16.43 |
, provisional designation is a stony background asteroid and exceptionally slow rotator from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 1.5km (00.9miles) in diameter. It was discovered on 18 December 2001, by astronomers with the Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search at Anderson Mesa Station near Flagstaff, Arizona, in the United States. The assumed S-type asteroid is likely elongated and has a rarely seen rotation period of 1007 hours, making it the 13th slowest rotator.
is a non-family asteroid from the main belt's background population. It orbits the Sun in the central main-belt at a distance of 2.2–2.9 AU once every 4 years and 2 months (1,515 days; semi-major axis of 2.58 AU). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.13 and an inclination of 10° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at Lincoln Lab's ETS in October 2001, extending the asteroid's observation arc by 2 months prior to its official discovery observation at Anderson Mesa.
The object is an assumed, common S-type asteroid.
In October 2013, a rotational lightcurve was obtained of this asteroid from photometric observations in the R-band by astronomers at the Palomar Transient Factory in California. It gave a rotation period of 1007.7 hours – or nearly 42 days – with an assigned error margin of ±86 hours. According to the Light Curve Data Base, it is the 13th slowest rotating minor planet known to exist among more than 15,000 observed small Solar System bodies. Due to its high brightness variation of 0.86 magnitude, the body is likely to have a non-spheroidal shape . As of 2018, no follow-up observation have been published.
The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a standard albedo for stony asteroids of 0.20 and calculates a diameter of 1.54 kilometers, based on an absolute magnitude of 16.43.
This minor planet was numbered by the Minor Planet Center on 4 October 2009. As of 2018, it has not been named.