5318 Dientzenhofer [SEP] named after
assumes an albedo of 0.24 – derived from 8 Flora, the parent body of the Flora family – and calculates a diameter of 5.41 kilometers based on an absolute magnitude of 13.5.
Naming.
This minor planet was named after Christoph Dientzenhofer (1655–1722) and his son Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer (1689–1751), members of the Dientzenhofer family of architects. Christoph and Kilian Ignaz are known for the churches and monasteries built in Prague during the 17th and 18th century in the Bohemian Baroque architecture style. The official naming citation was
5318 Dientzenhofer
5318 Dientzenhofer, provisional designation , is a stony background asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately in diameter. It was discovered on 21 April 1985, by Czech astronomer Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in Bohemia, Czech Republic. The transitional S-type asteroid has a rotation period of 8.06 hours. It was named after the German Baroque architects Christoph and Kilian Ignaz Dientzenhofer.
Orbit and classification.
"Dientzenhofer" is a non-family asteroid of the main belt's background population