2907 Nekrasov is an asteroid

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 Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh

Nikolay Stepanovich Chernykh was a Soviet and Russian astronomer.Chernykh was born in the city of Usman' in Voronezh Oblast...

 on October 3, 1975. Its provisional designation was 1975 TT2. Nekrasov has an absolute magnitude

Absolute magnitude

Absolute magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness. it is also the apparent magnitude a star would have if it were 32.6 light years away from Earth...

 of 11.50 and is thus assumed to be 13 km to 30 km in diameter.http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/glossary/h.html

Nekrasov orbits in the main asteroid belt

Asteroid belt

The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...

 between Mars

Mars

Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...

 and Jupiter

Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...

 and is not a near-Earth asteroid.http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2907;orb=1 However, it has been incorrectly described in some newspaper reports as likely to collide with the Earth on December 16, 2880.http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=2307529&C=asiapac http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=qw1161700561572S622. These reports have confused it with a smaller asteroid, (29075) 1950 DA

(29075) 1950 DA

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, which has been proposed as likely to collide with the Earth on March 16, 2880.http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/links/doi/10.1046/j.1365-246X.2003.01944.x/abs/

External links

• 2907 Nekrasov orbital simulation from JPL (Java)
• 1950 DA orbital simulation from JPL (Java)