1750 Eckert

1750 Eckert (1950 NA1) is a relatively large ~10 km Mars-crossing asteroid discovered on July 15, 1950 by Reinmuth, K. at Heidelberg.<ref name=jpldata/> It has a 375 hour rotation period<ref namejpldata/> and has the 5th longest known rotation period of a Mars-crossing asteroid.<ref name"SBDB"/> With an of 13,<ref namejpldata/> the asteroid is roughly 10 km in diameter.<ref name"h"/> It is one of the largest Mars-crossing asteroids as few Mars-crossing asteroids have an absolute magnitude brighter than 13.
 
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