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12696 Camus is a main belt asteroid with a perihelion of 2.252 AU. It has an eccentricity of 0.141 and an orbital period of 1551.866 days (4.25 years).Caldeira has an average orbital speed of 18.297 km/s and an inclination of 8.0°.The asteroid was discovered on September 26 1989 by Eric Walter Elst. This asteroid is named after Albert Camus a French novelist and essayist.