(2657) Bashkiria
Asteroid (2657) Bashkiria |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Themis family |
Major semi-axis | 3.1764 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1538 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6878 AU - 3.6651 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2424 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 50.3396 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 13.9308 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.66 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.70 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | approx. 21 km |
Absolute brightness | 12.1 mag |
history | |
Explorer | NS Tschernych |
Date of discovery | September 23, 1979 |
Another name | 1979 SB 7 , 1962 VD, 1968 UH 1 , 1976 GO 1 , 1976 GX 8 , 1981 AJ |
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. |
(2657) Bashkiria is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 23, 1979 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(2657) Bashkiria was named after Bashkortostan , a state in the eastern part of European Russia, formerly known as Bashkiria .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Bashkiria: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2657) Bashkiria in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2657) Bashkiria in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).