(6890) Savinykh

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Asteroid
(6890) Savinykh
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Asteroid family Themis family
Major semi-axis 3.2127  AU
eccentricity 0.1644
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6845 AU - 3.7409 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 0.9067 °
Length of the ascending node 194.9872 °
Argument of the periapsis 114.5438 °
Sidereal period 5.76 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.59 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 19.196 (± 0.066) km
Albedo 0.085 (± 0.013)
Absolute brightness 12.1 mag
history
Explorer LI Chernych
Date of discovery 3rd September 1975
Another name 1975 RP , 1969 OD 1 , 1981 RC 4 , 1987 SH 1
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.

(6890) Savinykh is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on September 3, 1975 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Tschernych at the branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .

(6890) Savinykh belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .

The asteroid was named on July 21, 2005 after the Soviet engineer and former cosmonaut Viktor Petrovich Savinych (* 1940), who flew into space a total of three times and installed two additional solar cells on the Salyut 7 space station on August 2, 1985 as part of an outboard activity.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (6890) Savinykh in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

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