1980 Tezcatlipoca, provisional designation 1950 LA, is an eccentric, stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Amor group, approximately 6 kilometers (4 mi) in diameter.

[2] Tezcatlipoca orbits the Sun in the inner main-belt at a distance of 1.1–2.3 AU once every 2 years and 3 months (816 days).

[3] The S-type asteroid is classified as a Sw-type by the ExploreNEOs project,[16] and as a SU and Sl-type on the Tholen and SMASS taxonomic scheme, respectively.

[4][5][6][8] The Collaborative Asteroid Lightcurve Link agrees with the revised NEOWISE observations, that is, an albedo of 0.128 and a diameter of 6.0 kilometers with an absolute magnitude of 13.96.

Both deities are Aztec creator gods and were depicted as twin serpents that coil round each other to produce time.