(7469) Krikalev
Asteroid (7469) Krikalev |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 3.0583 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1048 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7378 AU - 3.3788 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 7.7816 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 81.1958 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 15.1395 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.35 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.03 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernych |
Date of discovery | November 15, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 VU 14 , 1979 UJ 1 , 1990 UM 13 , 1990 WU 11 |
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. |
(7469) Krikalev is an asteroid of the main belt , which was discovered on November 15, 1990 by the Russian astronomer Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernych at the branch of the Crimean Observatory ( IAU code 095) in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid was named on April 13, 2006 after the Russian cosmonaut Sergei Konstantinowitsch Krikaljow (* 1958), who spent around 803 days in earth orbit on six space flights and was involved in building the ISS on his fourth space flight as part of the STS-88 mission .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Krikalev: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Krikalev in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7469) Krikalev in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).