4762 Dobrynya
asteroid
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Summary
4762 Dobrynya is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (13 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lyudmila Chernykh[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[4]
- Named after: Dobrynya Nikitich[5]
- Follows: 4761 Urrutia[6]
- Followed by: 4763 Ride[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 4762 Dobrynya[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1964 TE1[11], 1964 UL[12], 1980 BJ1[13], 1980 DE2[14], 1982 SC6[15], 1986 XL2[16], 1993 TL11[17]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 16, 1982[18]
- Significant event: naming[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.20[20], 0.2021046[21], 0.2005109409972607[22]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.4[23], 13.52[24]
- Orbital inclination: 6.90930 degree[25], 6.909789217687944 degree[26]
- Orbital period: 3.62 years[27], 1323.179174007614 day[28]
- Rotation period: 11.0141 hour[29]
- Longitude of ascending node: 11.66773 degree[30], 11.60606449057029 degree[31]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.3579431 astronomical unit[32], 2.358740441483737 astronomical unit[33]
- Apoapsis: 2.834 astronomical unit[34], 2.831693706973935 astronomical unit[35]
- Periapsis: 1.8813920 astronomical unit[36], 1.885787175993539 astronomical unit[37]
- Argument of periapsis: 76.16212 degree[38], 76.19422785235007 degree[39]
- Mean anomaly: 332.92883 degree[40], 265.9550050501867 degree[41]
- Diameter: 5.91 km[42]
- Albedo: 0.255[43]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[44]
Why It Matters
4762 Dobrynya has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[45] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[46]