6261 Chione

6261 Chione is a Mars-crossing asteroid discovered by Schuster in La Silla in 1976. A total of 377 data points were obtained using aclear filter over five nights during the period 2012 September 18-25. The average magnitude was 17.0 and average SNR ~ 36. The lightcurve shows a period of 5.3334 ± 0.0003 h and amplitude of 0.75 ± 0.04 mag. These findings were published in the Minor Planet Bulletin, Volume 40, Number 1, 2013January - March.