Discovery date 10 May 1999 Minor planet category Main belt Discovered 10 May 1999 Discovery site Experimental Test Site MPC designation 17102 | Alternative names 1999 JB41 Observation arc 9033 days (24.73 yr) Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Aphelion 2.54748 AU (381.098 Gm) Discoverer Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research | ||
17102 Begzhigitova (1999 JB41) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 10, 1999, by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research team at Socorro, New Mexico. A rotation period of 5.341 hours was determined at Modra Observatory in 2008 however this is a very tentative result and longer rotation periods are not ruled out. The asteroid was named for Akmaral Begzhigitova who won fourth place in the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair for her mathematics team project.
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