(38046) Krasnoyarsk

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Asteroid
(38046) Krasnoyarsk
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family Schubart family
Major semi-axis 3.9615  AU
eccentricity 0.2118
Perihelion - aphelion 3.1226 AU - 4.8005 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 3.0098 °
Length of the ascending node 23.5497 °
Argument of the periapsis 297.8706 °
Sidereal period 7.89 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.1 mag
history
Explorer Eric Walter Elst
Date of discovery September 20, 1998
Another name 1998 SW 144 , 1998 UX 40
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.

(38046) Krasnoyarsk is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 20 September 1998 by the Belgian astronomer Eric Walter Elst at the La Silla Observatory ( IAU code 809) of the European Southern Observatory in Chile was discovered.

The asteroid is a member of the Schubart family, a group of asteroids that was probably formed by collision 1.7 (± 0.7) billion years ago and orbits the Sun in an orbital resonance of 3: 2 with the planet Jupiter . This group is named after the asteroid (1911) Schubart .

(38046) Krasnoyarsk was named on August 9, 2006 after the Siberian city ​​of Krasnoyarsk , which was founded in 1628 and connected to the Trans-Siberian Railway in 1896 .

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Individual evidence

  1. Miroslav Brož , David Vokrouhlický : Asteroid families in the first order resonances with Jupiter . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2008 (English)
  2. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)