(2915) Moskvina

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Asteroid
(2915) Moskvina
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt
Asteroid family Eunomia family
Major semi-axis 2.5634 ± 0.0001  AU
eccentricity 0.1848 ± 0.0006
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0897 ± 0.0016 AU - 3.0372 ± 0.0002 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 13.2014 ± 0.0607 °
Length of the ascending node 352.8051 ± 0.1537 °
Argument of the periapsis 357.8409 ± 0.1887 °
Time of passage of the perihelion September 7, 2018
Sidereal period 4.1 a ± 0.0113 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 5.416 ± 0.037 km
Albedo 0.419 ± 0.031
Rotation period ≈ 2.177 ± 0.6531 h
Absolute brightness 13.1 mag
history
Explorer Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union/ Nikolai Stepanowitsch TschernychRussia Soviet Federal Socialist RepublicRussian SFSR 
Date of discovery 22nd August 1977
Another name 1977 QY 2 ; 1944 QG; 1981 QP 1 ; 1981 SW 5
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(2915) Moskvina ( 1977 QY 2 ; 1944 QG ; 1981 QP 1 ; 1981 SW 5 ) is an approximately five-kilometer asteroid of the central main belt that was discovered on August 22, 1977 by the Russian (then: Soviet Union ) astronomer Nikolai Stepanowitsch Tschernych in the Crimea -Observatory ( Nautschnyj branch) on the Crimean peninsula ( IAU code 095) was discovered. It belongs to the Eunomia family , a group of asteroids named after (15) Eunomia .

designation

(2915) Moskvina was named after Valentina Nikolajewna Moskwina , a doctor in the Bakchysarai hospital on the Crimean peninsula.

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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 22, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1977 QY 2 . Discovered 1977 Aug. 22 by NS Chernykh at Nauchnyj. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2914) Glärnisch numbering (2916) Voronveliya