(10113) Alantitle Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 August 1992 by H. E. Holt at Palomar.
Alan M. Title (b. 1938) is an American physicist who participated in the Apollo Telescope Mount investigation on Skylab 2 in 1973. He developed solar telescopes and has served the COSPAR solar-physics and Earth-science communities, contributing to the Space Weather and the Small Satellite COSPAR roadmaps.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 2, #9, 8), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Alantitle is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Alantitle is 2.84 au from the Sun and 1.89 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10113 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 PX2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 6.78 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.72 |
| Orbital period | 4.20 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 3.00 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.154 |
| Inclination | 11.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.21 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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