(3771) Alexejtolstoj

Asteroid (3771) Alexeytolstoy
Properties of the orbit ( animation ) Epoch: December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type	Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family	Matterania family
Major semi-axis	2.2251 AU
eccentricity	0.1679
Perihelion - aphelion	1.8515 AU - 2.5987 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane	4.5481 °
Length of the ascending node	249.4413 °
Argument of the periapsis	137.1231 °
Sidereal period	3.32 a
Mean orbital velocity	19.96 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness	13.9 likes
history
Explorer	Lyudmyla Shuravlowa
Date of discovery	20th September 1975
Another name	1974 SB ₃ , 1954 QF, 1984 SG ₅
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(3771) Alexejtolstoj is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 20, 1974 by the Ukrainian-Soviet astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). The asteroid had already been sighted in August 1954 under the provisional designation 1954 QF at the State Observatory Heidelberg-Königstuhl on the Königstuhl near Heidelberg .

The asteroid belongs to the Matterania family, a group of asteroids named after (883) Matterania .

The asteroid was named on November 18, 1994 after the Russian writer Alexei Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy (1883–1945).

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