minor and major occultation axes at kilometers was inferred. The quality rating is 1 ("no fit"). Rotation period In January 1988, a first rotational lightcurve of Nestor was obtained from photometric observations by MIT-astronomer Richard P. Binzel showing a rotation period of hours (). In August 1995, Italian astronomer Stefano Mottola observed the asteroid with the Bochum 0.61-metre Telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory, Chile, and derived a period of hours with a brightness variation of magnitude (). In January and February 2014, two lightcurves in the R-band were obtained at the Palomar Transient Factory, California. Lightcurve analysis gave two concurring periods of and hours with an amplitude of 0.24 and 0.22, respectively (). References External links Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB), query form (info ) Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, Google books Discovery Circumstances: Numbered Minor Planets (1)-(5000) – Minor Planet Center 000659 Discoveries by Max Wolf Named minor planets 000659 19080323 Nestor (mythology)