(2776) Baikal

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Asteroid
(2776) Baikal
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.3679 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.175 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9534 ± 0.0009 AU - 2.7824 ± 0.00001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.7866 ± 0.04 °
Length of the ascending node 187.5007 ± 0.4578 °
Argument of the periapsis 321.1242 ± 0.4687 °
Time of passage of the perihelion 1st March 2018
Sidereal period 3.64 a ± 0.062 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 19.441 ± 0.180 km
Albedo 0.032 ± 0.003
Absolute brightness 12.8 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych
Date of discovery September 25, 1976
Another name 1976 SZ 7 ; 1938 EE 1 ; 1945 AC; 1949 GB; 1949 HH 1 ; 1951 WJ 1 ; 1962 YB; 1967 EA; 1971 KS; 1980 VE 2 ; 1982 HH 1 ; 1982 KE 1
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(2777) Baikal ( 1976 SZ 7 ; 1938 EE 1 ; 1945 AC ; 1949 GB ; 1949 HH 1 ; 1951 WJ 1 ; 1962 YB ; 1967 EA ; 1971 KS ; 1980 VE 2 ; 1982 HH 1 ; 1982 KE 1 ) is a about ten kilometers large asteroid of the main inner belt , which was discovered on September 25, 1976 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory (Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095).

designation

(2776) Baikal was named after Lake Baikal , which is located in Irkutsk Oblast ( Siberia ) and in Buryatia ( Far East ) in present-day Russia.

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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 13, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1976 SZ 7 . Discovered 1976 Sept. 25 by NS Chernykh ”
predecessor asteroid successor
(2772) Dugan numbering (2774) Tenojoki