Discovered by L. Chernykh MPC designation 2127 Tanya Minor planet category main-belt (outer) Discovered 29 May 1971 Discoverer Lyudmila Chernykh Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Discovery date 29 May 1971 Alternative names 1971 KB1 · 1953 GH1 Observation arc 62.93 yr (22984 days) Orbits Sun Named after Tanya Savicheva Spectral type C-type asteroid (assumed) | |
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Discovery site Crimean Astrophysical Observatory | ||
2127 Tanya, provisional designation 1971 KB1, is a dark asteroid in the outer region of the asteroid belt, about 39 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered by Russian astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in Nauchnyj on 29 May 1971. The assumed carbonaceous C-type asteroid has a low geometric albedo of 0.06. It orbits the Sun at a distance of 3.1–3.3 AU once every 5 years and 9 months (2,105 days).
Light curve measurements from the Palomar Transient Factory Survey, gave a rotation period of 7000786400000000000♠7.8640±0.0211 hours with an amplitude of 6999180000000000000♠0.18 in magnitude.
Lyudmila Chernykh named her discovery in memory of the young Russian girl Tanya Savicheva, who died after the Siege of Leningrad (1941–1944) and wrote a well-known diary.