(7912) Lapovok Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 August 1978 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Yakov Semenovich Lapovok (b. 1932) is a radio engineer and inventor, scientific secretary of the A. S. Popov Museum at St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University. His name and voice are known to radio amateurs throughout the world.Naming citation (20000124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lapovok is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lapovok is 2.61 au from the Sun and 3.53 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7912 |
| Provisional designation | 1978 PO3 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.70 km (#6,872 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0670 |
| Rotation period | 23.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.28 |
| Orbital period | 3.82 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.45 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.13 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.129 |
| Inclination | 0.938° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.11 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Yakov
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