(2755) Avicenna

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Asteroid
(2755) Avicenna
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Major semi-axis 2.8454 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.2585 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 2.1098 ± 0.0011 AU - 3.581 ± 0.0002 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.5693 ± 0.0399 °
Length of the ascending node 232.3555 ± 0.5313 °
Argument of the periapsis 149.2044 ± 0.5367 °
Time of passage of the perihelion February 8, 2017
Sidereal period 4.8 a ± 0.1285 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 11.841 ± 0.224 km
Absolute brightness 13.3 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmila Ivanovna TschernychRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Date of discovery September 26, 1976
Another name 1973 SJ 4 ; 1978 UX 1
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(2755) Avicenna ( 1973 SJ 4 ; 1978 UX 1 ) is an approximately twelve-kilometer asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on September 26, 1976 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) was discovered on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2755) Avicenna was named after the Persian doctor , scientist , philosopher and poet Abū Alī al-Husain ibn Abd Allāh ibn Sīnā (980-1037), who is known in Europe as Avicenna .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 11, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1973 SJ 4 . Discovered 1973 Sept. 26 by LI Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2754) Efimov numbering (2756) Dzhangar