(2584) Turkmenia

Asteroid (2584) Turkmenia
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt
Major semi-axis	2.2277 ± 0.0001 AU
eccentricity	0.0659 ± 0.0003
Perihelion - aphelion	2.0808 ± 0.0001 AU - 2.3746 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	1.4373 ± 0.04 °
Length of the ascending node	50.0342 ± 0.0001 °
Argument of the periapsis	238.9299 ± 0.0001 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	January 15, 2020
Sidereal period	3.32 a ± 0.0512 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	6.152 ± 0.072 km
Albedo	0.235 ± 0.041
Rotation period	6.372 h
Absolute brightness	13.1 mag
history
Explorer	Soviet Union 1955 Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych
Date of discovery	March 23, 1979
Another name	1979 FG ₂ ; 1952 BK; 1962 BB; 1975 AW; 1976 KW; 1976 LA; A909 DA
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(2584) Turkmenia ( 1979 FG ₂ ; 1952 BK ; 1962 BB ; 1975 AW ; 1976 KW ; 1976 LA ; A909 DA ) is an approximately six kilometers large asteroid of the inner main belt , which on March 23, 1979 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) Astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych was discovered at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2584) Turkmenia was named after the then Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic .

^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp. 186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on 23 August 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1979 FG2. Discovered 1979 Mar. 23 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "

predecessor	asteroid	successor
(2583) Fatyanov	numbering	(2585) Irpedina