3552 Don Quixote

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name=3552 Don Quixote
discoverer=Paul Wild
discovered=September 26, 1983
alt_names=1983 SA
mp_category=near-Earth asteroid;
Mars-crosser asteroid;
Amor IV asteroid;
Jupiter-crosser asteroid
epoch=October 22, 2004 (JD 2453300.5)
semimajor=633.041 Gm (4.232 AU)
perihelion=181.885 Gm (1.216 AU)
aphelion=1084.198 Gm (7.247 AU)
eccentricity=0.713
period=3179.496 d (8.70 a)
inclination=30.841°
asc_node=350.402°
arg_peri=316.918°
mean_anomaly=157.954°
avg_speed=12.41 km/s
dimensions=18.7 km ( [http://earn.dlr.de/nea/003552.htm 1] )
mass=6.8×10¹⁵ kg
density=2? g/cm³
surface_grav=0.0052 m/s²
escape_velocity=0.0099 km/s
rotation=0.3208 d ( [http://www.astrosurf.com/aude-old/map_files/AstVarMAP01-2003.htm 2] )
spectral_type=D ( [http://earn.dlr.de/nea/003552.htm 1] )
abs_magnitude=13.0
albedo=0.02 ( [http://earn.dlr.de/nea/003552.htm 1] )
single_temperature=~138 K

3552 Don Quixote is a small main belt, Amor, Mars crossing, potentially hazardous asteroid. It has a highly inclined orbit, and measures 18.7 km in diameter. Its rotation period is 7.7 h. It was discovered by Paul Wild in 1983, and is named after the comic knight who is the eponymous hero of Cervantes' Spanish novel "Don Quixote" (1605).