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Discovery
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| Discovered by | Sylvain Julien Victor Arend |
| Discovery site | Uccle |
| Discovery date | January 8, 1954 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 1717 |
| Named after | Arlon |
| Alternate name(s) | 1954 AC |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.479109517076192 |
| Peri | 1.911439952117501 |
| Eccentricity | .1292935130196679 |
| Orbital period | 1188.041866925004 |
| Mean anomaly | 273.7413644827213 |
| Inclination | 6.192800270069894 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 340.5566947556712 |
| Argument of peri | 116.2177580444331 |
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Physical characteristics
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| Dimensions | 9 km[1] |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.9 |
1717 Arlon (provisional designation: 1954 AC) is a main belt asteroid discovered on January 8, 1954 by Sylvain Arend at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Uccle. It is named after the Belgian town of Arlon.[2]
Arlon is roughly 9 km in diameter. In 2006 a team of astronomers at the Ondřejov Observatory announced the lightcurve analysis suggests that Arlon has a moon orbiting once every 18.236 hours, at a distance of 16 km. The moon is approximately 4 km in diameter.[1]
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