(4178) Mimeev Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 March 1988 by E. F. Helin at Palomar.
Alexandr Pavlovich Mimeev (b. 1951) is a Russian radio engineer and amateur astronomer, known as the co-discoverer of a number of sungrazing comets. By finding and measuring additional images of objects in the SkyMorph archive, he contributed to the numbering of many hundreds of minor planets.Naming citation (20120406/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Mimeev is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Mimeev is 3.17 au from the Sun and 3.14 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 4178 |
| Provisional designation | 1988 EO1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 15.6 km (#2,998 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0510 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.73 |
| Orbital period | 5.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.18 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.63 – 3.74 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.173 |
| Inclination | 1.04° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.63 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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All asteroids named after someone called Alexandr
Also discovered on 13 March 1988
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