(1979) Sakharov
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Asteroid (1979) Sakharov |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3751 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0993 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1392 AU - 2.611 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.048 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3,660 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.33 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | ? km |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | 7.5209 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.6 mag |
| Spectral class | ? |
| history | |
| Explorer |
CJ and I. van Houten-Groeneveld , T. Gehrels |
| Date of discovery | September 24, 1960 |
| Another name | 2006 PL , 1971 SQ 3 , 1982 SZ 12 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(1979) Sakharov is an asteroid of the inner main belt that was discovered on September 24, 1960 by the Dutch research team Cornelis Johannes van Houten , Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels as part of the Palomar-Leiden survey .
The name of the asteroid is reminiscent of the Russian nuclear physicist, dissident and Nobel Prize winner Andrei Dmitrijewitsch Sakharov .