(2668) Tataria

Asteroid (2668) Tataria
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type	Inner main belt
Major semi-axis	2.3167 ± 0.00001 AU
eccentricity	0.0778 ± 0.0005
Perihelion - aphelion	2.1365 ± 0.0011 AU - 2.4969 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	3.1553 ± 0.0386 °
Length of the ascending node	298.0506 ± 0.9221 °
Argument of the periapsis	63.2402 ± 0.9532 °
Time of passage of the perihelion	March 12, 2019
Sidereal period	3.53 a ± 0.069 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter	5.397 ± 0.212 km
Albedo	0.290 ± 0.025
Rotation period	2.78 h
Absolute brightness	13.4 mag
history
Explorer	Soviet Union 1955 Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych
Date of discovery	August 26, 1976
Another name	1976 QV ; 1969 RH ₁ ; 1976 SV; 1980 VS
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(2668) Tataria ( 1976 QV ; 1969 RH ₁ ; 1976 SV ; 1980 VS ) is an approximately five-kilometer asteroid of the main inner belt that was discovered on August 26, 1976 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2668) Tataria was named after the former Tatar Autonomous 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 September 3, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1976 QV. Discovered 1976 Aug. 26 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "

predecessor	asteroid	successor
(2667) Oikawa	numbering	(2669) Shostakovich