98943 Torifune

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98943 Torifune (provisional designation 2001 CC21) is an Apollo-type near-Earth asteroid with a diameter of about 450 metres (1,500 feet). It was discovered by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) survey at Socorro, New Mexico, United States on 3 February 2001. It was a flyby target of JAXA's Hayabusa2 spacecraft as a part of its extended mission, which approached as close as 744 m (0.462 mi) from the center of the asteroid on 5 July 2026. Observations by Hayabusa2 have shown that Torifune is a contact binary asteroid. Telescope observations from Earth had previously indicated that Torifune is an elongated S-type asteroid with a rocky, weathered surface composed mostly of the silicate minerals pyroxene and olivine. It rotates with a period of 5.02 hours and has a small axial tilt of around 5° with respect to Earth's orbit.