(7855) Tagore Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 October 1977 by van Houten, C. J., van Houten-Groeneveld, I., Gehrels, T. at Palomar.
Named in memory of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), Indian poet and writer. Opposed to the Indian caste system, he created a school (Viśva-Bharati) in Santiniketan, and it became a state university in 1951. Tagore tried to unite the positive elements of European and Eastern philosophy. He received the 1913 Nobel Prize in literature for his lyric work Gitanjali.Naming citation (19981005/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tagore is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tagore is 2.64 au from the Sun and 2.44 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7855 |
| Provisional designation | 4092 T-3 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.67 km (#9,454 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.220 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.37 |
| Orbital period | 4.37 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.67 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.41 – 2.93 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0969 |
| Inclination | 13.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.42 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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