(3508) Pasternak

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Asteroid
(3508) Pasternak
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.7601  AU
eccentricity 0.1114
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4526 AU - 3.0675 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.6447 °
Length of the ascending node 4.7645 °
Argument of the periapsis 298.2812 °
Sidereal period 4.59 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.93 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.5 mag
history
Explorer LG Karachkina
Date of discovery February 21, 1980
Another name 1980 DO 5 , 1973 YR, 1977 SR 3 , 1980 FC, 1980 FG 10 , 1982 TJ 2
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(3508) Pasternak is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on February 21, 1980 by the Ukrainian astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina at the Crimean Observatory in Nauchnyj ( IAU code 095).

The asteroid was named after the Russian writer and poet Boris Leonidowitsch Pasternak (1890–1960), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1958 .

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