background asteroid
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from the outer region of the
asteroid belt
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. It was discovered on 24 February 1987, by Czech astronomer
Antonín Mrkos
Antonín Mrkos () (27 January 1918, Střemchoví – 29 May 1996, Prague) was a Czech astronomer.
Biography
Mrkos entered the University in Brno in 1938. His studies were interrupted by the onset of World War II, and in 1945 he became a staff ...
at the South Bohemian
Kleť Observatory
Kleť Observatory ( cz, Hvězdárna Kleť; obs. code: 046) is an astronomical observatory in the Czech Republic. It is situated in South Bohemia, south of the summit of Mount Kleť, near the town of České Budějovice. Constructed in 1957, t ...
in the Czech Republic. The presumed
C-type asteroid
C-type (carbonaceous) asteroids are the most common variety, forming around 75% of known asteroids. They are volatile-rich and distinguished by a very low albedo because their composition includes a large amount of carbon, in addition to rocks ...
has a rotation period of 10.0 hours and measures approximately in diameter. It was named for American actor Danny Kaye.
Orbit and classification
When applying the synthetic
hierarchical clustering method
An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semimajor axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination. The members of the families are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions. An ...
(HCM) by Nesvorný, or the 1995 HCM-analysis by Zappalà, ''Kaye'' is a non-
family
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asteroid of the main belt's background population, while according to another HCM-analysis by
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*Abbas Milani (born 1949), Iranian-American historian and author
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and Knežević (AstDyS), it is a core member of the Ursula family (), a family of 1,500 asteroids with a C- and X-type.
It orbits the Sun in the
Geneva Observatory
The Geneva Observatory (french: Observatoire de Genève, german: Observatorium von Genf) is an astronomical observatory at Sauverny (CH) in the municipality of Versoix, Canton of Geneva, in Switzerland. It shares its buildings with the astronomy d ...
'',
Raoul Behrend
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