(2578) Saint-Exupery Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 2 November 1975 by T. M. Smirnova at Nauchnyj.
Where Saint-Exupery is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Saint-Exupery is 2.94 au from the Sun and 2.79 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 2578 |
| Provisional designation | 1975 VW3 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 17.0 km (#2,675 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.168 |
| Rotation period | 8.15 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.53 |
| Orbital period | 5.21 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.00 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.72 – 3.28 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0933 |
| Inclination | 10.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 2 November 1975
- (2360) Volgo-Don
- (2371) Dimitrov
- (2401) Aehlita
- (2438) Oleshko
- (2519) Annagerman
- (2681) Ostrovskij
- (3347) Konstantin
- (3482) Lesnaya
- (4139) Ul'yanin
- (4467) Kaidanovskij
- (5930) Zhiganov
- (6621) Timchuk
More named asteroids discovered by T. M. Smirnova
- (1774) Kulikov
- (1791) Patsayev
- (1793) Zoya
- (1804) Chebotarev
- (1835) Gajdariya
- (1854) Skvortsov
- (1857) Parchomenko
- (1900) Katyusha
- (1902) Shaposhnikov
- (1903) Adzhimushkaj
- (1904) Massevitch
- (1905) Ambartsumian
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