(153686) Pathall Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 October 2001 by Sloan Digital Sky Survey at Apache Point.
Patrick Hall (b. 1968) is a Canadian-American astronomer and a contributor to the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, best known for recognizing and studying the wide variety of unusual broad-absorption-line quasars found by the SDSS.Naming citation (20120406/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Pathall is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Pathall is 3.10 au from the Sun and 3.75 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 153686 |
| Provisional designation | 2001 TZ242 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 16.38 |
| Orbital period | 4.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.69 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.28 – 3.10 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.151 |
| Inclination | 3.95° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.30 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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