(2894) Kakhovka

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Asteroid
(2894) Kakhovka
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Asteroid family Themis family
Major semi-axis 3.118 ± 0.00002  AU
eccentricity 0.1352 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6964 ± 0.0011 AU - 3.5396 ± 0.0002 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.5855 ± 0.0433 °
Length of the ascending node 86.1149 ± 0.9338 °
Argument of the periapsis 32.2994 ± 0.9499 °
Time of passage of the perihelion May 28, 2018
Sidereal period 5.51 a ± 0.1658 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 13.222 ± 0.456 km
Albedo 0.146 ± 0.014
Absolute brightness 12.7 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmila Ivanovna TschernychRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Date of discovery September 27, 1978
Another name 1978 SH 5 ; 1953 FQ; 1962 XZ; 1975 ET 3 ; 1978 Item 4 ; 1979 YB 9
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.

(2894) Kakhovka ( 1978 SH 5 ; 1953 FQ ; 1962 XZ ; 1975 ET 3 ; 1978 TZ 4 ; 1979 YB 9 ) is an approximately 13 km large asteroid of the outer main belt , which was removed on September 27, 1978 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych was discovered at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095). It belongs to the Themis family , a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .

designation

(2894) Kakhovka was named after the city of Kachowka in Kherson Oblast , which was then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic and is now part of Ukraine .

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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 21, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 SH 5 . Discovered 1978 Sept. 27 by LI Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2893) Peiroos numbering (2895) Memnon