(46539) Viktortikhonov

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Asteroid
(46539) Viktortikhonov
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  February 16, 2017 ( JD 2,457,800.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.5175  AU
eccentricity 0.2083
Perihelion - aphelion 2.4651 AU - 2.5700 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 9.7731 °
Length of the ascending node 328.5218 °
Argument of the periapsis 88.3303 °
Time of passage of the perihelion February 14, 2019
Sidereal period 3.99 a
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 5.667 (± 0.148) km
Albedo 0.200 (± 0.0031)
Absolute brightness 13.9 likes
history
Explorer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa
Date of discovery October 24, 1982
Another name 1982 UE 12 , 1984 DW, 1986 TQ 9
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(46539) Viktortikhonov is an asteroid of the main middle belt discovered by the Ukrainian - Soviet astronomer Lyudmyla Shuravlowa on October 24, 1982 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).

The asteroid was named on April 4, 2015 after the Soviet- Russian ice hockey player and coach Viktor Wassiljewitsch Tichonow (1930-2014). The asteroid of the inner main belt (9565) Tikhonov , also discovered in Nautschnyj , was named after the mathematician Andrei Nikolayevich Tichonov in 2002 .

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