(2810) Lev Tolstoy
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Asteroid (2810) Lev Tolstoy |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6067 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1528 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.2085 AU - 3.0049 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.7167 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 193.3538 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 258.7605 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.21 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.44 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 8 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | NS Tschernych |
| Date of discovery | September 13, 1978 |
| Another name | 1978 RU 5 , 1957 UW, 1976 GG 2 |
| 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. | |
(2810) Lev Tolstoy is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on September 13, 1978 by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
(2810) Lev Tolstoj was named after the Russian writer Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy (1828–1910), whose main works War and Peace and Anna Karenina are classics of the realistic novel.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (2810) Lev Tolstoj in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- Asteroid Lev Tolstoj: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (2810) Lev Tolstoj in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (2810) Lev Tolstoj in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).