Asteroid 10046 Creighton


Asteroid 10046 Creighton is a main belt asteroid with an estimated diameter of 10 km. It was discovered on May 2, 1986 by the International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey at Palomar. The semi-major axis is 2.33 AU, the eccentricity is 0.238 and the inclination is 8.31 degrees.

Observations of this asteroid were made on eight nights, during June and July, 2011. The resulting lightcurve showed a period of 6.5698 hours.



Lightcurve results for 10046 Creighton.
Period 6.5698 hours +/- 0.0002 hours. Amplitude 0.65 magnitude +/- 0.05 magnitude.