(8448) Belyakina Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 October 1976 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.
Named in honor of Tamara Sergeevna Belyakina (b. 1934), astrophysicist and stellar photometrist who worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory from 1955 to 1990. She is known for her multicolor photometric observations of symbiotic stars. She first discovered nonradial pulsations of red giants in such systems and proposed the interpretation of this phenomenon.Naming citation (19980808/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Belyakina is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Belyakina is 2.40 au from the Sun and 2.98 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8448 |
| Provisional designation | 1976 UT1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.93 km (#12,911 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.345 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.14 |
| Orbital period | 3.41 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.27 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.13 – 2.40 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0608 |
| Inclination | 4.08° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.14 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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