115801 Punahou
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Asteroid
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 115801 Punahou was discovered by the Junk Bond Observatory
Junk Bond Observatory
The Junk Bond Observatory is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona in the Sonoran Desert.Established in 1996, observer David Healy began by using a Celestron 14 SCT and a 16-inch Meade LX200 telescopes in a roll-off shelter...

 on October 23, 2003. Its provisional name was . It was named after Punahou School
Punahou School
Punahou School, once known as Oahu College, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school located in Honolulu CDP, City and County of Honolulu in the U.S. State of Hawaii...

 in Honolulu, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

. It has an absolute magnitude of 17.4 and an orbital period of 1356.57 days.

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