List of asteroids, numbers 60501 to 61000

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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 60501 to 61000

60501-60600 60601-60700 60701-60800 60801-60900 60901-61000
No. and name Large half-
axis (AE)
source Date of discovery Explorer
(60558) Echeclus 10.7505 1060558Data 0March 3, 2000 Spacewatch
(60608) 2000 EE 173 49.6604 1060608Data 0March 3, 2000 Wyn Evans , Jane Luu , Chad Trujillo
(60658) 2000 FG 48 2.4143 1060658Data March 29, 2000 LINEAR