46610 Besixdouze

Minor Planet | name=46610 Besixdouze
discoverer=Kin Endate and Kazuo Watanabe
discovery_date=October 15, 1993
designations=
category=Main belt
epoch=
semimajor=
perihelion=1,8607264 AU
aphelion=2,6791278 AU
eccentricity=0,1802704
period=3 years, 154 days, 3 hours
inclination=2,40122°
asc_node=
arg_peri=
mean_anomaly=
speed=
dimensions=
mass="unknown"
density="unknown"
gravity="unknown"
escape_velocity="unknown"
rotation="unknown"
spectral_class="unknown"
abs_mag=
albedo="unknown"
temperature="unknown"

46610 Besixdouze (1993 TQ1) is an asteroid belonging to Sol's asteroid belt. It was discovered by Kin Endate and Kazuo Watanabe on October 15 1993.

The name of the asteroid is a reference to The Little Prince, who lived on an asteroid named B612. The name Bésixdouze is the concatenation of B, six and douze, French for "B six twelve". Also, 46610 is the decimal equivalent of the hexadecimal number B612.

ee also

* 2578 Saint-Exupéry