(2890) Vilyujsk

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Asteroid
(2890) Vilyujsk
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Inner main belt
Major semi-axis 2.2598 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1606 ± 0.0003
Perihelion - aphelion 1.8969 ± 0.0008 AU - 2.6226 ± 0.0001 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.6185 ± 0.0568 °
Length of the ascending node 356.7299 ± 0.3196 °
Argument of the periapsis 51.3301 ± 0.3641 °
Time of passage of the perihelion 3rd October 2019
Sidereal period 3.4 a ± 0.0671 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 7.983 ± 0.081 km
Albedo 0.218 ± 0.019
Rotation period ≈ 3.45 ± 1.035 h
Absolute brightness 13.1 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Lyudmyla ShuravlowaUkraine Soviet Socialist RepublicUkrainian SSR 
Date of discovery September 26, 1978
Another name 1978 SY 7 ; 1944 SC; 1956 EL; 1961 TR 1 ; 1983 BP
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(2890) Vilyujsk ( 1978 SY 7 ; 1944 SC ; 1956 EL ; 1961 TR 1 ; 1983 BP ) is an approximately five-kilometer asteroid of the inner main belt , which was discovered on September 26, 1978 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

(2890) On the occasion of its 350th anniversary, Vilyujsk was named after the city of Wiljuisk , which is located in the then Yakut Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic and today in Wiljuiski ulus in Sakha in the Far East Federal District .

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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 21, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1978 SY 7 . Discovered 1978 Sept. 26 by LV Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2889) Brno numbering (2891) McGetchin