(2922) Dikan'ka

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Asteroid
(2922) Dikan'ka
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.3723 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1432 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0325 ± 0.0011 AU - 2.7121 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 2.9829 ± 0.0429 °
Length of the ascending node 188.0103 ± 0.6154 °
Argument of the periapsis 344.8743 ± 0.6251 °
Time of passage of the perihelion November 28, 2019
Sidereal period 3.65 a ± 0.0673 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 5.693 ± 0.182 km
Albedo 0.180 ± 0.020
Absolute brightness 13.8 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Nikolai Stepanowitsch TschernychRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Date of discovery April 1, 1976
Another name 1976 GY 1 ; 1954 GE; 1961 AP; 1976 JK; 1978 YZ; 1983 CR 3
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.

(2922) Dikan'ka ( 1976 GY 1 ; 1954 GE ; 1961 AP ; 1976 JK ; 1978 YZ ; 1983 CR 3 ) is an approximately six kilometers large asteroid of the inner main belt , which was released on April 1, 1976 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

(2922) Dikan'ka was named after Dikan'ka , a small Ukrainian village. It is mentioned in the work Evenings in the hamlet near Dikanka by Nikolai Wassiljewitsch Gogol , after whom the asteroid (2361) Gogol was named.

See also

Web links

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 23, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1976 GY 1 . Discovered 1976 Apr. 1 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. ”
predecessor asteroid successor
(2921) Sophocles numbering (2923) Schuyler