(5570) Kirsan

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Asteroid
(5570) Kirsan
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.2376  AU
eccentricity 0.0718
Perihelion - aphelion 3.0050 AU - 3.4701 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 10.7766 °
Length of the ascending node 174.0631 °
Argument of the periapsis 327.7603 °
Time of passage of the perihelion January 31, 2016
Sidereal period 5.83 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.56 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 15.471 km (± 0.331)
Albedo 0.089 (± 0.015)
Absolute brightness 12.5 mag
history
Explorer Nikolai Tschernych
Date of discovery April 4th 1976
Another name 1976 GM 7 , 1978 RX 16
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(5570) Kirsan is an asteroid of the main outer belt that was discovered by the Soviet astronomer Nikolai Tschernych on April 4, 1976 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj ( IAU code 095).

According to the SMASS classification ( Small Main-Belt Asteroid Spectroscopic Survey ), a spectroscopic study by Gianluca Masi , Sergio Foglia and Richard P. Binzel at (5570) Kirsan assumed a dark surface, so it could, roughly speaking, be around trade a C asteroid .

(5570) Kirsan was named on June 20, 1997 after the politician and chess official Kirsan Nikolajewitsch Ilyumschinow , who has been President of the World Chess Federation FIDE since 1995 . In the dedication to the International Astronomical Union , Ilyumschinov is incorrectly described as a chess grandmaster and it is reminded of his election for the second term in 1996.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gianluca Masi, Sergio Foglia, Richard P. Binzel: Search for Unusual Spectroscopic Candidates Among 40313 minor planets from the 3rd Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Moving Object Catalog . (English)
  2. subdivision of asteroids to S-types, C-types and V-types (English)