(3588) Kirik

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Asteroid
(3588) Kirik
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.2263  AU
eccentricity 0.1938
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6010 AU - 3.8515 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.3725 °
Length of the ascending node 329.7085 °
Argument of the periapsis 103.8304 °
Sidereal period 5.80 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.60 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.1 mag
history
Explorer LI Chernych
Date of discovery October 8, 1981
Another name 1981 TH 4 , 1941 SF, 1941 SZ 1 , 1958 TJ 1 , 1977 TF, 1983 ES
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(3588) Kirik is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on October 8, 1981 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .

The asteroid was named after the Russian monk and chronicler Kirik of Novgorod (1110-1156), who wrote the first mathematical treatise in Russia and contributed to the First Novgorod Chronicle.

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