(9167) Kharkiv
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Asteroid (9167) Kharkiv |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1446 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1674 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6181 AU - 3.6710 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.9534 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 359.8760 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 325.4744 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.58 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.80 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.6 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Lyudmila Chernych |
| Date of discovery | September 18, 1987 |
| Another name | 1987 SS 17 , 1981 SP 2 |
| 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. | |
(9167) Kharkiv is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Tschernych on September 18, 1987 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named after the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on January 7, 2004 . Kharkiv is the second largest city in Ukraine and was the capital of Ukraine from 1919 to 1934. It was named on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the city at the suggestion of astronomers from the National University of Karasin in Kharkiv . The asteroid of the middle main belt (10685) Kharkivuniver was named after the university itself on January 25, 2005 .
Web links
- (9167) Kharkiv in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (9167) Kharkiv in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (9167) Kharkiv according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Article on naming Walentyna Hatasch August 20, 2004 on gazeta.zn.ua (Russian, archive version from April 2, 2015)