(7322) Lavrentina Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 September 1979 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Soviet mathematician Mikhail Alekseevich Lavrent'ev (1900-1980) was the first head of the Siberian Department of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences. His son Mikhail Mikhailovich Lavrent'ev (b. 1932) also works in mathematical physics.Naming citation (20000124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Lavrentina is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Lavrentina is 3.29 au from the Sun and 3.27 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7322 |
| Provisional designation | 1979 SW2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 15.5 km (#3,023 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.140 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.13 |
| Orbital period | 5.73 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.20 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.85 – 3.56 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.111 |
| Inclination | 16.0° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.84 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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