4605 Nikitin
asteroid
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Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lyudmila Chernykh[1]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[2]
- Named after: Afanasy Nikitin[3]
- Follows: 4604 Stekarstrom[4]
- Followed by: 4606 Saheki[5]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[6]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[7]
- Provisional designation: 1932 BC[8], 1937 RT[9], 1977 ST[10], 1984 YW5[11], 1987 SV17[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 18, 1987[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.15[15], 0.1543157[16], 0.1540469920700498[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.6[18], 13.67[19]
- Orbital inclination: 2.14253 degree[20], 2.143517076507369 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 3.33 years[22], 1214.41707433193 day[23]
- Rotation period: 2.82726 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 284.25181 degree[25], 284.1847985643728 degree[26]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.2277285 astronomical unit[27], 2.227646587460038 astronomical unit[28]
- Apoapsis: 2.572 astronomical unit[29], 2.570808843653368 astronomical unit[30]
- Periapsis: 1.8839551 astronomical unit[31], 1.884484331266709 astronomical unit[32]
- Argument of periapsis: 99.34861 degree[33], 99.40176117553916 degree[34]
- Mean anomaly: 170.77808 degree[35], 161.8849799058649 degree[36]
- Diameter: 4.548 km[37]
- Albedo: 0.456[38]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[39]
- Time of periapsis: 2460454.400323123 Julian day[40]