List of asteroids, numbers 61001 to 61500

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The following table contains a partial list of the asteroid overview . The numbers listed in the first column indicate the order of their final cataloging, serve as an identification number and are part of the name.


The background color indicates the type of orbit:

Main belt asteroid within the 3: 1 Kirkwood gap at 2.50 AU
Main belt asteroid between the 3: 1 Kirkwood gap and the 5: 2 Kirkwood gap
Main belt asteroid outside the 5: 2 Kirkwood gap at 2.82 AU
Cupid-type near-earth asteroid
Apollo-type near-earth asteroid
Aten-type near-earth asteroid
Mars trojan
Jupiter Trojan
Neptune Trojan
Centaurs
Transneptunian object

Special features are indicated by a border:

Mars orbit cruiser. Main girdle asteroid with a perihelion smaller than the perihelion of Mars (1,381 AU)
Marsbahn Grazer. Main girdle asteroid with a perihelion larger than the perihelion of Mars but smaller than the aphelion of Mars (1,666 AU)
Potentially dangerous asteroid (background color according to orbit type)
Dwarf planet


Asteroid numbers 61001 to 61500

61001-61100 61101-61200 61201-61300 61301-61400 61401-61500
No. and name Large half-
axis (AE)
source Date of discovery Explorer
(61338) 2000 PK 3.1379 1061338Data 0August 1, 2000 Wolf Bickel
(61342) Lovejoy 2.3766 1061342Data 0August 3, 2000 Gordon J. Garradd
(61422) 2000 QN 15 2.8715 1061422Data 0August 4, 2000 LINEAR