2201 Oljato, provisional designation 1947 XC, is a stony and extremely eccentric active[10] asteroid and sizable near-Earth object of the Apollo group, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter.
It has an Earth minimum orbit intersection distance of 0.0031 AU (460 thousand km) and is associated with the Beta Taurids daytime meteor shower.
Oljato was discovered by American astronomer Henry L. Giclas at the U.S Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, on 12 December 1947.
[11] The next notable close approach to Earth will be on 28 November 2024, passing at a nominal distance of 0.47 AU (70,000,000 km; 44,000,000 mi).
[5] An alternative and exceptionally high albedo of 0.43 was determined by 11 observations from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS.