2063 Bacchus

2063 Bacchus, provisional designation 1977 HB, is a stony asteroid and near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 1 kilometer in diameter.

The contact binary was discovered on 24 April 1977, by American astronomer Charles Kowal at the Palomar Observatory in California, United States.

[2][1] Bacchus orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.7–1.5 AU once every 1 years and 1 month (409 days).

In March 1996 radar observations were conducted at the Goldstone Observatory under the direction of JPL scientists Steven Ostro and Lance Benner, allowing the construction of a model of the object.

[5] Optical observations were conducted by Petr Pravec, Marek Wolf, and Lenka Šarounová during March and April 1996.