(8339) Kosovichia Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 September 1985 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Aleksandr Grigorievich Kosovichev (b. 1953), solar physicist and helioseismologist, has worked at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory and at Stanford University. The naming also honors his wife, Tatiana Vladimirovna Kosovicheva, a doctor who worked in the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory's medical office.Naming citation (20001013/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kosovichia is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kosovichia is 3.15 au from the Sun and 3.32 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8339 |
| Provisional designation | 1985 RM6 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 11.6 km (#4,251 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0900 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.39 |
| Orbital period | 5.69 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.19 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.63 – 3.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.174 |
| Inclination | 0.219° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.63 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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