(4785) Petrov
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Asteroid (4785) Petrov |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6642 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0602 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5039 AU - 2.8245 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.6782 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 301.6835 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 115.0457 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.35 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.24 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina |
| Date of discovery | 17th December 1984 |
| Another name | 1984 YH 1 , 1978 NC 1 , 1979 SE 5 , 1981 AN 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. | |
(4785) Petrov is an asteroid of the main belt that was discovered on December 17, 1984 by the Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina at the Crimean Observatory in Nauchnyj ( IAU code 095).
The asteroid was named after the Russian composer Andrei Pavlovich Petrov (1930-2006), who wrote both classical music and music for over 80 Soviet and Russian films.
See also
Web links
- (4785) Petrov in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- Asteroid Petrov in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Asteroid Petrov: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA