(35618) Tartu

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Asteroid
(35618) Tartu
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  May 23, 2014 ( JD 2,456,800.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.9997  AU
eccentricity 0.2376
Perihelion - aphelion 2.2871 AU - 3.7123 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 14.8772 °
Length of the ascending node 56.3871 °
Argument of the periapsis 350.6502 °
Sidereal period 5.20 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.7 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery April 25, 1998
Another name 1998 HC 149 , 1953 VU 1 , 1979 WY 6 , 2000 QP 7
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(35618) Tartu is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 25 April 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory of the European Southern Observatory in Chile ( IAU code was discovered 809).

(35618) Tartu was named on January 22, 2008 after the second largest city in Estonia, Tartu , which is the seat of the University of Tartu and where the historic Dorpat observatory was founded in 1811 .

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