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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | I. P. Griffin |
| Discovery site | Cocoa |
| Discovery date | March 16, 1998 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 31268 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1998 FA |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.9734095 |
| Peri | 2.3083199 |
| Eccentricity | 0.1259227 |
| Orbital period | 1567.5364593 |
| Mean anomaly | 172.98875 |
| Inclination | 10.30419 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 92.27410 |
| Argument of peri | 22.07081 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.5 |
31268 Welty (provisional designation: 1998 FA) is a main belt asteroid discovered on March 16, 1998 by Ian P. Griffin at the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Florida. It is named after Sandra Welty, an English teacher at Kenwood High School, Baltimore.[1]