1590 Tsiolkovskaja
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | G. Neujmin |
| Discovery site | Simeiz Obs. |
| Discovery date | 1 July 1933 |
| Designations | |
| (1590) Tsiolkovskaja | |
Named after | Konstantin Tsiolkovsky (rocket scientist) |
| 1933 NA · 1933 OU 1936 HB · 1937 VE 1940 RN · 1940 RX 1943 OD · 1950 SF A907 TB · A913 MC | |
| main-belt · Flora | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 108.90 yr (39,777 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.5802 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.8807 AU |
| 2.2305 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.1568 |
| 3.33 yr (1,217 days) | |
| 102.49° | |
| 0° 17m 45.24s / day | |
| Inclination | 4.3517° |
| 226.54° | |
| 52.664° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 9.83±0.40 km 10.300±0.076 km 10.826±0.019 km 12.81±0.27 km 13.27 km 13.32 km (derived) |
| 6.7 h 6.7299±0.0005 h 6.731±0.002 h 6.737±0.004 h | |
| 0.2095±0.018 0.2096 (derived) 0.232±0.012 0.291±0.036 0.3260±0.0601 0.419±0.050 | |
| S | |
| 11.29±0.27 · 11.60 · 11.7 | |
1590 Tsiolkovskaja, provisional designation 1933 NA, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 11 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 1 July 1933, by Soviet–Russian astronomer Grigory Neujmin at Simeiz Observatory, on the Crimean peninsula. It was named for rocket scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky.