(46208) Gicquel Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 March 2001 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Adeline Gicquel Brodtke (b. 1985) is a French scientist, working as a researcher at the University of Maryland. She specializes in modeling gas and dust activity of comets.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 1, #2, 25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Gicquel is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Gicquel is 3.54 au from the Sun and 2.77 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 46208 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 FB160 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 6.47 km (#8,285 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0610 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.84 |
| Orbital period | 5.66 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.18 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.67 – 3.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.160 |
| Inclination | 0.573° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.65 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.