Photometry of Damocloid Asteroid 2006 BZ8

Photometry of the Damocloid asteroid 2006 BZ8 was obtained on two nights in 2006 February with the University of Arizona Kuiper 1.54-m telescope. Lightcurve analysis yielded a rotation period of 5.960 ± 0.003 h and amplitude of 0.35 magnitudes. An analysis of photometry reported by the Catalina Sky Survey, Mount Lemmon Survey. and Siding Spring Survey to the Minor Planet Center found a steep phase function slope of b_V = 0.054 ± 0.008 which is consistent with 2006 BZ8 being a very low albedo object.