2793 Valdaj
asteroid
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Summary
2793 Valdaj is an asteroid[1].
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Nikolai Chernykh[2]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[3]
- Named after: Valdai Hills[4]
- Follows: 2792 Ponomarev[5]
- Followed by: 2794 Kulik[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1941 FT[9], 1949 SG[10], 1966 UH[11], 1969 EJ1[12], 1977 QV[13], 1980 BM1[14], 2017 TR39[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 19, 1977[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.03[18], 0.0301583[19], 0.02965862989326879[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.4[21], 11.47[22]
- Orbital inclination: 22.09613 degree[23], 22.04584907224763 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 5.64 years[25], 2059.288803727631 day[26]
- Rotation period: 10.594 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 356.33948 degree[28], 356.1691152726989 degree[29]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.1666318 astronomical unit[30], 3.167713442637723 astronomical unit[31]
- Apoapsis: 3.262 astronomical unit[32], 3.261663483240848 astronomical unit[33]
- Periapsis: 3.0711317 astronomical unit[34], 3.073763402034599 astronomical unit[35]
- Argument of periapsis: 188.05582 degree[36], 202.3466782412415 degree[37]
- Mean anomaly: 310.65351 degree[38], 355.6200328833885 degree[39]
- Diameter: 27.103 km[40]
- Albedo: 0.082[41]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[42]