(5361) Goncharov

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Asteroid
(5361) Goncharov
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family Nocturna family
Major semi-axis 3.1290  AU
eccentricity 0.0900
Perihelion - aphelion 2.8474 AU - 3.4105 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 7.2331 °
Length of the ascending node 82.4040 °
Argument of the periapsis 129.8776 °
Time of passage of the perihelion August 14, 2017
Sidereal period 5.53 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.83 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 23.459 km (± 0.294)
Albedo 0.081 (± 0.009)
Absolute brightness 11.6 mag
history
Explorer Lyudmila Chernych
Date of discovery December 16, 1976
Another name 1976 YC 2 , 1975 WC 2 , 1978 EU 5 , 1981 UK 23 , 1982 YD 5 , 1987 XE, 1991 RE 30
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.

(5361) Goncharov is an asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Tschernych on December 16, 1976 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095). There were unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid on November 24th and 25th, 1975 with the provisional designation 1975 WC 2 at the Karl-Schwarzschild-Observatory in the Tautenburg Forest .

The asteroid belongs to the Nocturna family, an asteroid family named after (1298) Nocturna . The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (5361) Goncharov are almost identical to those of the two smaller ones, assuming the absolute magnitude of 16.0 and 15.8 compared to 11.6, asteroids (245013) 2004 JC 108 and ( 249639) 1999 TU 162 .

(5361) Goncharov was named on January 24, 2000 after the Russian writer Ivan Goncharov , whose best-known work is the novel Oblomow (1859).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Observations by (5631) Gonachrov on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
  2. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)