(9565) Tikhonov

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Asteroid
(9565) Tikhonov
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th November 2013 ( JD 2,456,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Vesta family
Major semi-axis 2.3439  AU
eccentricity 0.1321
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0343 AU - 2.6535 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.3425 °
Length of the ascending node 214.4442 °
Argument of the periapsis 121.5829 °
Sidereal period 3.59 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.46 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.8 mag
history
Explorer Lyudmila Chernych
Date of discovery September 18, 1987
Another name 1987 SU 17 , 1993 FR 28
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.

(9565) Tikhonov is an asteroid of the main inner 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 belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt. The timeless (non- osculating ) orbital elements of (9565) Tikhonov are almost identical to those of five smaller ones, if one considers the absolute brightness of 16.2, 15.7, 16.0, 17.0 and 17.7 compared to 13, 8, asteroids: (90400) 2003 YS 26 , (98052) 2000 RX 34 , (102342) 1999 TO 120 , (185010) 2006 PR 31 and (357534) 2004 RO 186 .

(9565) Tikhonov was named on June 24, 2002 after the Russian mathematician Andrei Nikolajewitsch Tichonow .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
predecessor asteroid successor
(9564) Jeffwynn numbering (9566) Rykhlova