(26795) Basilashvili Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 September 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.
Oleg Valerianovich Basilashvili (b. 1934) has been honored as a People's Artist of the USSR and a state prize laureate of Russia along with many other domestic and foreign prizes, including an Honorable Citizen of St. Petersburg. He played more than one hundred roles in the theater and cinema in a career that began in 1956.Naming citation (20121029/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Basilashvili is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Basilashvili is 2.56 au from the Sun and 3.55 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 26795 |
| Provisional designation | 1978 SD8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.72 km (#15,811 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.314 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.06 |
| Orbital period | 3.29 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.74 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.213 |
| Inclination | 4.24° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.736 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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