(2760) Kacha

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Asteroid
(2760) Kacha
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Major semi-axis 3.9869 ± 0.0005  AU
eccentricity 0.1191 ± 0.0005
Perihelion - aphelion 3.5121 ± 0.0019 AU - 4.4617 ± 0.0005 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 13.4873 ± 0.0588 °
Length of the ascending node 352.501 ± 0.1994 °
Argument of the periapsis 151.044 ± 0.197 °
Time of passage of the perihelion September 29, 2023
Sidereal period 7.96 a ± 0.4964 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 57.9 ± 5 km
Albedo 0.058 ± 0.010
Rotation period 13 h
Absolute brightness 10.04 mag
Spectral class X
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmyla ShuravlowaUkraine Soviet Socialist RepublicUkrainian SSR 
Date of discovery October 8, 1980
Another name 1980 TU 6 ; 1952 DJ; 1960 DC; 1965 UP; 1968 DH; 1981 UB 21
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(2760) Kacha ( 1980 TU 6 ; 1952 DJ ; 1960 DC ; 1965 UP ; 1968 DH ; 1981 UB 21 ) is an approximately 57 kilometers large asteroid of the main outer belt that was released on October 8, 1980 by the Ukrainian (then: Soviet Union ) Astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa was discovered at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2760) Kacha was named after Kacha , a flight school on the Crimean peninsula . The Soviet spacemen trained there ; In the 1980s, Kacha celebrated its 70th anniversary.

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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 11, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1980 TU 6 . Discovered 1980 Oct. 8 by LV Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2759) Idomeneus numbering (2761) Eddington