(7469) Krikalev

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Asteroid
(7469) Krikalev
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
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
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(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 .

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