21501 Acevedo
loneos
['august kopff', 'george van biesbroeck', 'birmingham university', 'sergey belyavsky', 'hendrik van gent', 'george maciunas', 'dmitri mendeleev', 'johan gadolin', 'ernest johnson', 'marguerite laugier', 'evangelista torricelli', 'odin', 'cornelis johannes van houten', 'egide walschaerts', 'michael brown', 'franz anton mesmer', 'brouwer', 'nauchnyj', 'clyde tombaugh', 'conway', 'henry holt', 'lord rayleigh', 'harold urey', 'hyperboloid', 'malcolm mackerras', 'alexander grothendieck', 'crimean astrophysical observatory', 'grigory neujmin', 'gause', 'charles messier', 'gridshell', 'claude chappe', 'noam chomsky', 'moog', 'harlow shapley', 'toshimasa furuta', 'christopher cockerell', 'otto hahn', 'sir alexander fleming', 'mike brown', 'schelte bus', 'nanking', 'niels henrik abel', 'microsoft', 'speke', 'kazuro watanabe', 'hermann goldschmidt', 'nikolai stepanovich chernykh', 'albert einstein', 'heinrich schenker', 'humphry davy', 'harry edwin wood', 'henri cartan', 'edward bowell', 'william hyde wollaston', 'georg cantor', 'blackberry', 'annibale de gasparis', 'bartolomeo cristofori', 'nicolas bourriaud', 'emmett chapman', 'vint cerf', 'herschel', 'indiana asteroid program', 'pieter zeeman', 'urata', 'james bradley', 'ptolemy', 'eleanor helin', 'carl gustav mosander', 'james watt', 'mikhail lazarev', 'heinrich ruhmkorff', 'christopher alexander', 'sequoyah', 'liisi oterma', 'eric elst', 'edwin mcmillan', 'karl reinmuth', 'turing', 'bickley', 'gustav rose', 'rudolf diesel', 'fabian gottlieb von bellingshausen', 'icao', 'franz kaiser', 'ephraim shay', 'lyudmila zhuravleva', 'kant', 'carl auer von welsbach', 'bill mollison', 'christopher latham sholes', 'robert luther', 'arnold schoenberg', 'ernest rutherford', 'gerry anderson', 'august derleth', 'sir winston churchill', 'max wolf']
21501 Acevedo
21501 Acevedo, provisional designation 1998 KC8, is a stony asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, about 2.4 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by the U.S. Lowell Observatory Near-Earth Object Search (LONEOS) at Anderson Mesa Station, near Flagstaff, Arizona, on 23 May 1998. The S-type asteroid is a member of the Flora family, one of the largest groups of stony asteroids in the main-belt. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.1–2.5 AU once every 3 years and 6 months (1,286 days). Its orbit shows an eccentricity of 0.07 and is tilted by 6 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic. In 2010, a photometric light-curve analysis at the Palomar Transient Factory gave a rotation period of 6.5689±0.0050 hours with a brightness amplitude of 0.10 in magnitude, while the Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link assumes an albedo of 0.24, a typical value for asteroids with a stony surface composition, and identical to the albedo of the Flora family's namesake, 8 Flora. The minor planet was named in honour of Tony Acevedo (b. 1950), a multimedia graphic designer and media officer at the Arecibo Observatory.