(12704) Tupolev

Asteroid (12704) Tupolev
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: January 13, 2016 ( JD 2,457,400.5)
Orbit type	Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis	2.6386 AU
eccentricity	0.1965
Perihelion - aphelion	2.1200 AU - 3.1573 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.2497 °
Length of the ascending node	320.3051 °
Argument of the periapsis	0.4025 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	January 1, 2016
Sidereal period	4.29 a
Mean orbital velocity	18.33 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.6 mag
history
Explorer	Lyudmyla Shuravlowa , Galina Kastel
Date of discovery	September 24, 1990
Another name	1990 SL ₂₈ , 1964 RK, 1981 PJ, 1993 FN ₂₅
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(12704) Tupolev is an asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered by the Soviet astronomers Lyudmyla Shuravlowa and Galina Kastel on September 24, 1990 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). The asteroid had already been sighted on September 10, 1964 with the provisional designation 1964 RK at this observatory and on August 4, 1981 (1981 PJ) at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Arizona .

(12704) Tupolev was named on March 9, 2001 after the Soviet aircraft designer Andrei Nikolajewitsch Tupolew (1888–1972).

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