2862 Vavilov
Appearance
Discovery | |
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Discovered by | N. Chernykh |
Discovery site | Nauchnyj |
Discovery date | 15 May 1977 |
Designations | |
2862 | |
1977 JP | |
Orbital characteristics[1] | |
Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
Observation arc | 85.07 yr (31071 days) |
Aphelion | 2.4541871 AU (367.14116 Gm) |
Perihelion | 1.9488055 AU (291.53715 Gm) |
2.201496 AU (329.3391 Gm) | |
Eccentricity | 0.1147814 |
3.27 yr (1193.1 d) | |
12.829933° | |
0° 18m 6.25s / day | |
Inclination | 3.483841° |
225.84315° | |
278.19506° | |
Earth MOID | 0.964714 AU (144.3192 Gm) |
Jupiter MOID | 2.56485 AU (383.696 Gm) |
TJupiter | 3.653 |
Physical characteristics | |
800 h (33 d) | |
12.8 | |
2862 Vavilov (1977 JP) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 15, 1977 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It is named after Russian plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov and his physicist brother Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov.[2] It potentially takes 800 hours to rotate.
References
- ^ "2862 Vavilov (1977 JP)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.), New York: Springer Verlag, p. 235, ISBN 3540002383
- Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2006) http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm
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