Asteroid 43064 1999 VK114


43064 1999 VK114 is a main-belt asteroid with an estimated diameter of 5 km. It was discovered on November 9, 1999, by the Catalina Sky Survey. The semi-major axis is 2.21 AU, the eccentricity is 0.090 and the inclination is 7.64 degrees.

Asteroid 42144 2001 BW40, was only observed on one night as it passed through the same field as another asteroid that I was targeting. The lightcurve is very asymmetric and further observations at the next opposition would be very useful. With only one night of data, the lightcurve shown below is tentative at best.



Lightcurve results for 43064 1999 VK114.
Period 8.856 +/- 0.001 hours. Amplitude 0.6 +/- 0.1 magnitude.