(7370) Krasnogolovets Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 27 September 1978 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.

Mikhail Aleksandrovich Krasnogolovets (b. 1960), professor of radioelectronics at Kharkov National Technical University, specializes in the physics of elementary particles, accelerators and lasers. He is known in particular for his work on a high-energy laser for astrophysical research.Naming citation (20030910/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Krasnogolovets is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Krasnogolovets is 2.71 au from the Sun and 1.72 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	7370
Provisional designation	1978 SM5
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	7.67 km (#6,913 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.189
Rotation period	4.90 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.18
Orbital period	4.37 years
Semi-major axis	2.67 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.58 – 2.76 au
Eccentricity	0.0331
Inclination	4.01°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.57 au

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

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