2794 Kulik
asteroid
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Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Nikolai Chernykh[1]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[2]
- Named after: Leonid Kulik[3]
- Follows: 2793 Valdaj[4]
- Followed by: 2795 Lepage[5]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[6]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
- Provisional designation: 1940 TJ[8], 1953 DE[9], 1959 SP[10], 1978 PS3[11], 1986 XX2[12], 2019 GG36[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 8, 1978[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.22[16], 0.2169030[17], 0.2159831379820119[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.0[19], 13.14[20]
- Orbital inclination: 7.49154 degree[21], 7.498315453271445 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 3.82 years[23], 1396.369495085783 day[24]
- Rotation period: 8.0 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 330.67359 degree[26], 330.4516673638873 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.4445871 astronomical unit[28], 2.444938563073636 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 2.975 astronomical unit[30], 2.973004066099511 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 1.9143488 astronomical unit[32], 1.916873060047761 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 75.95087 degree[34], 76.5057602052223 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 82.02237 degree[36], 83.06879260368284 degree[37]
- Diameter: 7.323 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.14[39]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[40]
- Time of periapsis: 2460678.292422263 Julian day[41]