Binary asteroid discovery IAU announcement

IAU CBET 4570

(20882) 2000 VH57
B. D. Warner, Center for Solar System Studies (CS3), Landers, CA, USA.,
A. Aznar Macias, APT Observatories Group, M. Serra-Ricart and J.
Licandro, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias-IAC, and P. Pravec,
Ondrejov Observatory report that photometric observations obtained with a
0.25-m telescope at the CS3 facility in Landers, CA, USA, and 0.45-m telescope
at the Canary Astrophysics Institute, from 2018 September 15 through October 20
reveal that the inner main-belt minor planet (20882) 2000 VH57 is a binary system
with an orbital period of 32.81 +/- 0.02 hr. The primary shows a period of
2.5586 +/- 0.0001 hr and has a maximum lightcurve amplitude of 0.15 mag at solar
phase angles from 19 degrees in mid-September down to 2 degrees in mid-October.
The nearly-symmetrical shape and amplitude of the lightcurve suggest that the
primary shape is near spheroidal.

2018 November 08,  Daniel W. E. Green

http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/cbet/RecentCBETs.html