(1959) Karbyshev

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Asteroid
(1959) Karbyshev
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 2.3154  AU
eccentricity 0.1343
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0045 AU - 2.6263 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.2020 °
Length of the ascending node 285.1135 °
Argument of the periapsis 31.9876 °
Sidereal period 3.52 a
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.9 mag
history
Explorer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa
Date of discovery July 14, 1972
Another name 1972 NB , 1971 DN 1
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(1959) Karbyshev (also 1972 NB ; 1971 DN 1 ) is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on July 14, 1972 by the Ukrainian - Soviet astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea .

The asteroid was named after Dmitri Michailowitsch Karbyshev (1880-1945), an officer in the Imperial Russian Army , General of the Red Army , professor of the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces and belated hero of the Soviet Union . He was killed in the Mauthausen concentration camp .

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