Asteroid 43595 2001 QT101


43595 2001 QT101 is a main-belt asteroid with an estimated diameter of 5 km. It was discovered on August 18, 2001, by LINEAR at Socorro. The semi-major axis is 2.38 AU, the eccentricity is 0.173 and the inclination is 14.09 degrees.

This asteroid was observed on 6 nights and the resulting lightcurve indicated a period of just over 22 hours. However the data was quite noisy and so this result is somewhat uncertain. This asteroid would benefit from international collaboration at future oppositions.



Lightcurve results for 43595 2001 QT101.
Period 22.049 +/- 0.015 hours. Amplitude 0.8 +/- 0.05 magnitude.