(38046) Krasnoyarsk Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 20 September 1998 by E. W. Elst at La Silla.
The Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk was founded in 1628 as a trading post along the Yenisei river. In 1772 the German zoologist and botanist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was shown there a 700-kg lump of metal that he identified as a new type of stony-iron meteorite, now known as a pallasite.Naming citation (20060809/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Krasnoyarsk is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Krasnoyarsk is 4.41 au from the Sun and 5.38 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 38046 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SW144 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 16.5 km (#2,790 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0410 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.26 |
| Orbital period | 7.86 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.95 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.11 – 4.79 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.212 |
| Inclination | 3.01° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.10 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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