15258 Alfilipenko

15258 Alfilipenko
Discovery[1]
Discovered byL. V. Zhuravleva
Discovery siteCrimean Astrophysical Obs.
Discovery date15 September 1990
Designations
(15258) Alfilipenko
Named after
Aleksandr Filipenko
(Russian civil engineer)[2]
1990 RN17 · 1998 BJ11
main-belt · (outer)[1]
background
Orbital characteristics[1]
Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc26.63 yr (9,726 days)
Aphelion3.7790 AU
Perihelion2.7040 AU
3.2415 AU
Eccentricity0.1658
5.84 yr (2,132 days)
267.12°
0° 10m 8.04s / day
Inclination6.7272°
294.01°
31.763°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions11.29 km (calculated)[3]
12.059±0.379 km[4][5]
4.3655±0.0016 h[6]
0.057 (assumed)[3]
0.084±0.011[4][5]
C[3]
12.74±0.59[7] · 12.9[4] · 13.014±0.002 (R)[6] · 13.1[1] · 13.46[3]

15258 Alfilipenko, provisional designation 1990 RN17, is a carbonaceous background asteroid from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 12 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 15 September 1990, by Russian–Ukraininan astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravleva at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula.[8] The asteroid was named after Russian civil engineer Aleksandr Filipenko.[2]

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