List of minor planets: 1001–2000

1169 Alwine

1169 Alwine, provisional designation 1930 QH, is an asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, roughly 15 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 30 August 1930, by the astronomers Max Wolf and Mario Ferrero at the Heidelberg Observatory in southern Germany.

The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3 years and 6 months (1,289 days). Its orbit is tilted by 4 degrees to the plane of the ecliptic and shows an eccentricity of 0.15. Little is known about the asteroids effective size, composition, albedo and rotation, despite having a well-observed orbit with the lowest possible uncertainty – a condition code of 0 – and an observation arc that spans over a period of nearly a century.

Based on its absolute magnitude of 12.8, its diameter could be anywhere between 9 and 21 kilometers, assuming an albedo in the range of 0.05 to 0.25. Since many asteroids in the inner main-belt are of a silicaceous rather than of a carbonaceous composition, with relatively high albedos, typically around 0.20, the asteroid's diameter might be on the lower end of NASA's published conversion table, as the higher the reflectivity (albedo), the smaller the body's diameter for a given intrinsic brightness (absolute magnitude).