(2720) Pyotr Pervyj

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Asteroid
(2720) Pyotr Pervyj
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.3306 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.2032 ± 0.0003
Perihelion - aphelion 1.8569 ± 0.0007 AU - 2.8043 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 3.2893 ± 0.0038 °
Length of the ascending node 113.4149 ± 0.6392 °
Argument of the periapsis 236.5532 ± 0.6459 °
Time of passage of the perihelion November 25, 2018
Sidereal period 3.56 a ± 0.0616 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 8.933 ± 0.107 km
Albedo 0.061 ± 0.006
Absolute brightness 14.1 mag
Spectral class SMASSII: C
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmyla ShuravlowaUkraine Soviet Socialist RepublicUkrainian SSR 
Date of discovery September 6, 1972
Another name 1972 RV 3 ; 1965 UN 1
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(2720) Pyotr Pervyj ( 1972 RV 3 ; 1965 UN 1 ) is an approximately nine kilometers large asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on September 6, 1972 by the Ukrainian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) was discovered on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2720) Pyotr Pervyj was named after Peter I , known as Peter the Great (1672-1725) and from 1682 to 1725 Tsar ( ruler of Russia ) of Tsarist Russia and the Russian Empire .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 9, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1972 RV 3 . Discovered 1972 Sept. 6 by LV Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2719) Suzhou numbering (2721) Vsekhsvyatskij