Sable or oil painting are not manufactured from sable hair, but from that of the Siberian weasel. Sable The sable ("Martes zibellina") is a species of marten, a small carnivorous mammal primarily inhabiting the forest environments, of Russia, from the Ural Mountains throughout Siberia, and northern Mongolia. Its habitat also borders eastern Kazakhstan, China, North Korea and Hokkaidō, Japan. Its range in the wild originally extended through European Russia to Poland and Scandinavia. Historically, it has been hunted for its highly valued dark brown or black fur, which remains a luxury good to this day. While hunting is still common in
5026 Martes 0.24 and an inclination of 4° with respect to the ecliptic. A first precovery was taken at Palomar Observatory in 1953, extending the body's observation arc by 34 years prior to its official discovery observation at Klet. "Martes" has been characterized as a carbonaceous C-type asteroid by PanSTARRS photometric survey. "Martes" forms an asteroid pair with , and was part of the 35 sample asteroid pairs in Petr Pravec's study "Formation of asteroid pairs by rotational fission", published in the journal "Nature". Between 2008 and 2010, several rotational lightcurves of "Martes" were obtained from photometric observations. Lightcurve analysis gave a