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Discovery and designation
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| Discovery site | European Southern Observatory |
| Discovery date | March 19, 1993 |
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Designations
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| MPC designation | 8881 |
| Alternate name(s) | 1993 FW36 |
| Epoch May 14, 2008 | |
| Ap | 2.8097110 |
| Peri | 2.6477176 |
| Eccentricity | 0.0296831 |
| Orbital period | 1646.4006937 |
| Mean anomaly | 239.73152 |
| Inclination | 4.94758 |
| Longitude of ascending node | 168.23040 |
| Argument of peri | 267.92465 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.5 |
8881 Prialnik (1993 FW36) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on March 19, 1993 by at the European Southern Observatory.[1]
It is named after Dina Prialnik, "a leading expert in the modelling of thermal evolution of cometary nuclei, also known for her work on white dwarfs and the mechanisms of nova outbursts".[1]