2127 Tanya
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2127 Tanya is a main belt asteroid
, discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh
on May 29, 1971. She named her discovery in memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva
, who died after the Siege of Leningrad
and wrote a well-known diary.
Orbital Information:
Keplerian elements at epoch 53450
a (AU) 3.21188
eccentricity 0.038242
inclination (deg) 13.115
Asc. node (deg) 106.664
Arg. perih. (deg) 177.321
M (deg) 291.705
IRAS
data:
Number of sightings 6
Mean albedo 0.0601
Effective diameter (km) 39.28
Intrinsic var. probability 0.10
Other useful data:
Absolute Magnitude 10.879
Slope parameter 0.15
Perihelion (AU) 3.0891
Aphelion (AU) 3.3347
Asc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 2.35131
Desc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 2.07346
Earth MOID (AU) 2.07335
Orbital period (days) 2102.51
First obs. (day/mo/yr) 14.155230/04/1953
Last obs. (day/mo/yr) 18.507440/01/2005
Number of obs. 365
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
, discovered by Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh
Lyudmila Chernykh
Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh is a Russian, Ukrainian and Soviet astronomer.In 1959 she graduated from Irkutsk State Pedagogical University. Between 1959 and 1963 she worked in the 'Time and Frequency Laboratory' of the All-Union Research Institute of Physico-Technical and Radiotechnical Measurements...
on May 29, 1971. She named her discovery in memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva
Tanya Savicheva
Tatiana Nikolayevna Savicheva , commonly referred to as Tanya Savicheva was a Soviet child diarist who endured the Siege of Leningrad during World War II.- Early life :...
, who died after the Siege of Leningrad
Siege of Leningrad
The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last...
and wrote a well-known diary.
Orbital Information:
Keplerian elements at epoch 53450
a (AU) 3.21188
eccentricity 0.038242
inclination (deg) 13.115
Asc. node (deg) 106.664
Arg. perih. (deg) 177.321
M (deg) 291.705
IRAS
IRAS
The Infrared Astronomical Satellite was the first-ever space-based observatory to perform a survey of the entire sky at infrared wavelengths....
data:
Number of sightings 6
Mean albedo 0.0601
Effective diameter (km) 39.28
Intrinsic var. probability 0.10
Other useful data:
Absolute Magnitude 10.879
Slope parameter 0.15
Perihelion (AU) 3.0891
Aphelion (AU) 3.3347
Asc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 2.35131
Desc. node-Earth sep. (AU) 2.07346
Earth MOID (AU) 2.07335
Orbital period (days) 2102.51
First obs. (day/mo/yr) 14.155230/04/1953
Last obs. (day/mo/yr) 18.507440/01/2005
Number of obs. 365