(5839) GOI Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 21 September 1974 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

Named for Gosudarstvennyj Opticheskij Institut, the State Optical Institute, and its first director, academician Dmitrij Sergeevich Rozhdestvenskij (1876-1940), an outstanding physicist-optician. The institute has undertaken important investigations in the field of physical and applied optics. The name is given on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of its founding (1918 Dec. 15).Naming citation (19980808/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where GOI is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: GOI is 2.53 au from the Sun and 3.08 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	5839
Provisional designation	1974 SJ3
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	24.7 km (#1,716 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0440
Rotation period	6.30 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	11.87
Orbital period	4.59 years
Semi-major axis	2.76 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.52 – 3.00 au
Eccentricity	0.0855
Inclination	16.9°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.55 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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