(8537) Billochbull Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 21 March 1993 by C.-I. Lagerkvist at La Silla.
Named for the fictional cats Bill and Bull, dim and fawning cronies of the bad cat Må ns of the Knutsson stories.Naming citation (19990202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Billochbull is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Billochbull is 2.77 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8537 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 FG24 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.5 km (#4,296 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.167 |
| Rotation period | 6.75 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.61 |
| Orbital period | 5.29 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.04 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.72 – 3.36 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.106 |
| Inclination | 9.95° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.72 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 21 March 1993
- (5630) Billschaefer
- (6102) Visby
- (6528) Boden
- (6796) Sundsvall
- (6797) Ostersund
- (7595) Vaxjo
- (7831) Francois-Xavier
- (8535) Pellesvanslos
- (8536) Mans
- (8538) Gammelmaja
- (8697) Olofsson
- (9621) Michaelpalin
More named asteroids discovered by C.-I. Lagerkvist
- (2114) Wallenquist
- (2191) Uppsala
- (2274) Ehrsson
- (2589) Daniel
- (2694) Pino Torinese
- (2744) Birgitta
- (2902) Westerlund
- (3005) Pervictoralex
- (3250) Martebo
- (3331) Kvistaberg
- (3573) Holmberg
- (3634) Iwan
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