(8449) Maslovets Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 March 1977 by N. S. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Bogdan Pavlovich Maslovets (b. 1940), an electrical engineer at Zaporozhye Transformer Works in Ukraine, began his career at this plant in 1962 as a foreman and later become one of the leaders of the enterprise.Naming citation (20000726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Maslovets is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Maslovets is 3.12 au from the Sun and 2.35 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8449 |
| Provisional designation | 1977 EO1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.8 km (#3,456 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0610 |
| Rotation period | 231 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.08 |
| Orbital period | 5.29 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.03 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.55 – 3.51 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.158 |
| Inclination | 2.87° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.54 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Bogdan
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Also discovered on 13 March 1977
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