2114 Wallenquist, provisional designation , is a Themistian
asteroid
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from the outer region of the
asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is a torus-shaped region in the Solar System, centered on the Sun and roughly spanning the space between the orbits of the planets Jupiter and Mars. It contains a great many solid, irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids ...
, approximately 28 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Swedish astronomer
Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist
Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist (born 1944) is a Sweden, Swedish astronomer at the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. He is known for his work on the shapes and spin properties of minor planets.
He has discovered three comets, P/1996 R2, C/1996 R3 and 308 ...
at the Australian
Mount Stromlo Observatory
Mount Stromlo Observatory located in the west of Canberra, Australia, is part of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University (ANU). Australia's oldest telescope and several others at the observatory we ...
near Canberra, on 19 April 1976.
Orbit and classification
''Wallenquist'' is a member of the
Themis family
The Themis family (''adj. Themistian''; ) is a family of carbonaceous asteroids located in the outer portion of the asteroid belt, at a mean distance of 3.13 AU from the Sun. It is one of the largest families with over 4700 known members, and c ...
, a dynamical family of outer-belt asteroids with nearly coplanar ecliptical orbits. It orbits the Sun in the