2862 Vavilov
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | N. Chernykh |
| Discovery site | Nauchnyj |
| Discovery date | 15 May 1977 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 2862 |
| 1977 JP | |
| Orbital characteristics[1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 85.07 yr (31071 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.4541871 AU (367.14116 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 1.9488055 AU (291.53715 Gm) |
| 2.201496 AU (329.3391 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1147814 |
| 3.27 yr (1193.1 d) | |
| 12.829933° | |
| 0° 18m 6.25s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.483841° |
| 225.84315° | |
| 278.19506° | |
| Earth MOID | 0.964714 AU (144.3192 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.56485 AU (383.696 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.653 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 800 h (33 d) | |
| 12.8 | |
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2862 Vavilov (1977 JP) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on May 15, 1977 by N. Chernykh at Nauchnyj. It is named after Russian plant geneticist Nikolai Vavilov and his physicist brother Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov.[2] It potentially takes 800 hours to rotate.
References
- ↑ "2862 Vavilov (1977 JP)". JPL Small-Body Database. NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ↑ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003), Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (5th ed.), New York: Springer Verlag, p. 235, ISBN 3540002383
- Pravec, P.; Wolf, M.; Sarounova, L. (2006) http://www.asu.cas.cz/~ppravec/neo.htm
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