3703 Volkonskaya
| Discovery [1] | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | L. Chernykh, N. Chernykh |
| Discovery site | CrAO (Nauchnyj) |
| Discovery date | 9 August 1978 |
| Designations | |
| MPC designation | 3703 Volkonskaya (1978 PU3) |
Named after | Mariya Volkonskaya |
| 1978 PU3; 1977 EK6 | |
| main-belt | |
| Orbital characteristics [1] | |
| Epoch 13 January 2016 (JD 2457400.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 22856 days (62.58 yr) |
| Aphelion | 2.6442 AU (395.57 Gm) |
| Perihelion | 2.0206 AU (302.28 Gm) |
| 2.3324 AU (348.92 Gm) | |
| Eccentricity | 0.13370 |
| 3.56 yr (1301.1 d) | |
| 183.85° | |
| 0° 16m 36.084s / day | |
| Inclination | 6.7402° |
| 172.94° | |
| 152.00° | |
| Earth MOID | 1.0099 AU (151.08 Gm) |
| Jupiter MOID | 2.66729 AU (399.021 Gm) |
| Jupiter Tisserand parameter | 3.549 |
| Physical characteristics | |
| 3.235 h (0.1348 d) | |
| 14.1 | |
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3703 Volkonskaya, provisionally designated 1978 PU3, is a main belt binary asteroid with an orbital period of 1,300 days (3.56 years). A moon was announced in 2005 orbiting the asteroid, with a diameter of 1.39 km and a separation of 7.8 km.[2]
The asteroid was discovered on August 9, 1978 and named for Mariya Nikolaevna Volkonskaya (1805–1865), a princess who voluntarily followed her husband, the Decembrist Sergey Volkonsky, to exile in Siberia.[1][3]
References
- 1 2 3 "JPL Small-Body Database Browser: 3703 Volkonskaya (1978 PU3)" (2015-03-17 last obs.). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ↑ Johnston, Robert. "(3703) Volonskaya". johnstonsarchive.net. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ "Dictionary of Minor Planet – (3703) Volkonskaya". Springer Berlin Heidelberg. 2007. p. 312. Retrieved 10 October 2015.
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