(2540) Blok
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Asteroid (2540) Blok |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.1967 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0509 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0848 AU - 2.3086 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 1.2646 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.26 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 20.09 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | LI Chernych |
| Date of discovery | October 13, 1971 |
| Another name | 1971 TH 1 , 1950 ED, 1957 JQ, 1960 FK, 1968 UZ, 1980 LN, 1981 UQ |
| 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. | |
(2540) Blok is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on October 13, 1971 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named after the poet of Russian modernism Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok (1880–1921), a representative of the so-called second generation of symbolists .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Blok: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2540) Blok in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (2540) Blok in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).