(5865) Qualytemocrina Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 August 1984 by A. Mrkos at Klet.
Named for the International Comet Quarterly, which serves as an international archive of photometric data on comets, striving to maintain a useful bridge between amateur and professional astronomers; the naming occurs with the journal's century issue. Qualytemocrina is a play on the journal's title, each letter of the title being used and with a combination of word-order and letter-order reversal. The discoverer of this object was one of the most prolific comet discoverers and astrometrists of recent decades. Name suggested by D. W. E. Green, who made the key identification for this minor planet.Naming citation (19961026/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Qualytemocrina is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Qualytemocrina is 2.38 au from the Sun and 2.58 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5865 |
| Provisional designation | 1984 QQ |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.96 km (#9,000 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.138 |
| Rotation period | 2.42 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.87 |
| Orbital period | 3.74 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.41 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.09 – 2.72 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.130 |
| Inclination | 7.62° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.