(27659) Dolsky Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 September 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.
Alexandr Alexandrovich Dolsky (b. 1938) is an Honoured Artist of Russia, a Bulat Okudzhava State literary prize-winner, a guitarist-virtuoso, a poet-musician and an author of many collections of poems and sonnets.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2014-04-15), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Dolsky is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Dolsky is 2.92 au from the Sun and 3.92 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 27659 |
| Provisional designation | 1978 SO7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.76 km (#6,817 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0500 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.56 |
| Orbital period | 3.83 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.96 – 2.93 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.198 |
| Inclination | 2.70° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.961 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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