Discovered by T. Smirnova MPC designation 2009 Voloshina Minor planet category main-belt Absolute magnitude 11.2 | Discovery date 22 October 1968 Named after Vera Voloshina Discovered 22 October 1968 Orbits Sun Asteroid group Asteroid belt | |
Alternative names 1968 UL · 1926 FF1929 TO · 1957 WF21959 EC · 1970 EL11973 SP6 · 1973 SU3 Similar 2058 Róka, Asteroid belt, Solar System, Sun | ||
2009 Voloshina, provisional designation 1968 UL, is an asteroid in the asteroid belt, about 35 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Russian astronomer Tamara Smirnova at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj on 22 October 1968. The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.7–3.6 AU once every five and a half years. Its orbit lies nearly in the ecliptic plane as it is tilted by less than 3 degrees. Measurements by the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, IRAS, show a geometric albedo of 0.07. The asteroid rotates around its axis once every six hours.
It was named in honor of Vera Danilovna Voloshina (1919–1941), a partisan of the Soviet Great Patriotic War (1941–1945), also known as the Eastern Front of the Second World War.
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