(2428) Kamenyar
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Asteroid (2428) Kamenyar |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Veritas family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.165 AU |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8621 AU - 3.4692 AU |
| Sidereal period | 5.63 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 23.652 km |
| Absolute brightness | 11.5 likes |
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| Explorer | N. S. Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | September 11, 1977 |
| Another name | 1977 RZ 6 |
| 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. | |
(2428) Kamenyar is an asteroid of the main belt with a mean diameter of about 23.5 km . At an average distance of 3,165 AU, it orbits the sun in about 5.6 years .
The asteroid belongs to the Veritas family , a group of asteroids named after (490) Veritas and probably formed when an asteroid with a diameter of 150 km broke up 8.3 (± 0.5) million years ago.
Discovery and naming
The celestial body was on 11 September 1977 by the Soviet astronomer N. S. Chernykh at the branch of the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj , Ukrainian SSR ( IAU code discovered 095) and received in honor of Ivan Franko , a Ukrainian writer, the name Kamenyar , a Nickname Frankos, which he got after one of his literary figures.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kamenyar: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2428) Kamenyar in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2428) Kamenyar in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (2428) Kamenyar in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
- ↑ Kenneth A. Farley , David Vokrouhlický , William Bottke , David Nesvorný : A late Miocene dust shower from the break-up of an asteroid in the main belt . Nature , Vol. 439, pp. 295ff, January 19, 2006 (English)
- ↑ (2428) Kamenyar Dictionary of Minor Planet Names by Lutz D. Schmadel ; accessed on August 16, 2018