(6547) Vasilkarazin

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Asteroid
(6547) Vasilkarazine
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt
Major semi-axis 2.5406  AU
eccentricity 0.2474
Perihelion - aphelion 1.9121 AU - 3.1691 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.9382 °
Length of the ascending node 214.5053 °
Argument of the periapsis 133.8405 °
Sidereal period 4.05 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.67 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 14.6 mag
history
Explorer LI Chernych
Date of discovery 2nd September 1987
Another name 1987 RO 3 , 1975 VX 3 , 1979 UR 1
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(6547) Vasilkarazin is an asteroid of the main middle belt that was discovered on September 2, 1987 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the Nautschnyj branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj , Ukraine .

The asteroid was named on April 7, 2005 after the Russian statesman, writer , inventor , educator and enlightener Vasily Nasarowitsch Karasin (1773-1842), who founded the Russian Ministry of Education and the University of Kharkov named after him in 1905 .

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