2015 Kachuevskaya

Main-belt asteroid yes 2015 Kachuevskaya #FFFFC0 L. Zhuravleva Nauchnyj September 4, 1972 2015 Natasha Kachuevskaya 1972 RA3 May 14, 2008 2.5785034 2.0915664 0.1042676 1303.2822984 73.28201 11.91562 344.64703 273.66510 12.4 2015 Kachuevskaya (provisional designation 1972 RA3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 4, 1972 by L. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.2015 Kachuevskaya (1972 RA3) https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html https://web.archive.org/web/20251105170719/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html 2025-11-05 2025-11-08 ssd.jpl.nasa.gov en It was later named in honor of the Russian military doctor Natalia Kachuevskaya who died in the Battle of Stalingrad.Schmadel Lutz D. http://archive.org/details/dictionaryofmino0000schm_k0v7 Dictionary of minor planet names 2003 Berlin; New York : Springer Internet Archive 978-3-540-00238-3 Physical & orbital characteristics The absolute magnitude of Kachuevskaya is 12.1 and its rotation period is 42.53 hours. Kachuevskaya is located at an average distance of 2.336 AU from the Sun, with a minimum distance of 2.093 AU and a maximum of 2.578 AU. It has an orbital inclination of 11.91 degrees and an eccentricity of 0.1039. It takes 1304 days to complete one orbit around the Sun. References External links 2015 Kachuevskaya in Minor Planet Center 2014 Vasilevskis 2015 2016 Heinemann 002015 Category:Discoveries by Lyudmila Zhuravleva Category:Named minor planets 19720904