(5381) Sekhmet

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( 5381 ) Sekhmet is an asteroid from Aten type. This refers to a group of asteroids whose orbits cross mostly run inside the Earth's orbit and this from the inside.

It is named after the goddess of war, Sekhmet of Egyptian mythology.

Sekhmet was discovered on May 14, 1991 by Carolyn Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory.

Sekhmet runs on an eccentric orbit between 0.6669 AU ( perihelion ) and 1.2279 AU ( aphelion ) in 237 days around the sun. The orbital eccentricity is 0.296, the orbit is inclined 5.86 ° to the ecliptic.

Its size is estimated at 1 km. The albedo is 0.25.

Sekhmet has a moon with about 300 m in diameter, encircling him in about 12.5 hours at an average distance of about 1.5 km. The moon named S/2003 ( 5381 ) 1 was discovered in May 2003 by a team of astronomers at the Arecibo Observatory.