(73358) Kitwhitten Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 May 2002 by NEAT at Palomar.
Kit Whitten (b. 1986) is the archivist at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science. She has tracked down requested archived plates within their plate library in search of precovery NEO observations.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2020-11-17), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kitwhitten is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kitwhitten is 2.61 au from the Sun and 2.09 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 73358 |
| Provisional designation | 2002 KT1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.67 km (#9,455 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0420 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.62 |
| Orbital period | 4.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.78 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.60 – 2.96 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0650 |
| Inclination | 3.74° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.59 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.