| Minorplanet: | yes |
| 1761 Edmondson | |
| Background: |
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| Discovered: | 30 March 1952 |
| Discoverer: | Indiana University |
| Mpc Name: | (1761) Edmondson |
| Alt Names: | 1952 FN1940 BC 1950 XP1952 HT 1955 US1969 JK 1978 WY |
| Named After: | Frank Edmondson |
| Epoch: | 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) |
| Uncertainty: | 0 |
| Observation Arc: | 64.74 yr (23,646 days) |
| Perihelion: | 2.4388 AU |
| Semimajor: | 3.1766 AU |
| Eccentricity: | 0.2323 |
| Period: | 5.66 yr (2,068 days) |
| Mean Motion: | / day |
| Inclination: | 2.4636° |
| Asc Node: | 76.988° |
| Arg Peri: | 49.903° |
| Dimensions: | 20.51 km km |
| Albedo: | 0.08 |
| Abs Magnitude: | 11.4011.8 |
1761 Edmondson, provisional designation, is a dark background asteroid from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 21 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 March 1952, by the Indiana Asteroid Program at Goethe Link Observatory, United States. It was named after astronomer Frank Edmondson.
Edmondson is a background asteroid, located near the region occupied by the Themis family, a dynamical family of outer-belt asteroids with nearly coplanar ecliptical orbits. It orbits the Sun in the outer main-belt at a distance of 2.4–3.9 AU once every 5 years and 8 months (2,068 days). Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.23 and an inclination of 2° with respect to the ecliptic.
It was first identified as at Konkoly Observatory in 1940. The body's observation arc begins with its identification as at McDonald Observatory in 1950, or 2 years prior to its official discovery observation at Goethe Link.
Edmondson has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid.
In November 2012, a rotational lightcurve of Edmondson was obtained from photometric observations at the Etscorn Campus Observatory in New Mexico, United States. Lightcurve analysis gave a well-defined rotation period of 4.208 hours with a brightness variation of 0.29 magnitude .
According to the surveys carried out by the Japanese Akari satellite, Edmondson measures 21.94 kilometers in diameter and its surface has an albedo of 0.102, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes a more typical albedo for carbonaceous asteroids of 0.08 and calculates a diameter of 20.51 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 11.8.
This minor planet was named for astronomer Frank K. Edmondson (1912–2008) of Indiana University, the program's founder and director. The official was published by the Minor Planet Center on 20 February 1971 .