(2127) Tanya Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 29 May 1971 by L. I. Chernykh at Nauchnyj.
Named in memory of Tanya Savicheva, a 12-year-old schoolgirl who perished during the 1941-1944 blockade of Leningrad. In her diary she made a record as her parents and other relatives died, one by one. Her last note was “... all the Savichev's have died, Tanya is left alone.”Naming citation (MPC 5283), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
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Where Tanya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tanya is 3.31 au from the Sun and 3.67 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 2127 |
| Provisional designation | 1971 KB1 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 37.7 km (#1,042 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0480 |
| Rotation period | 7.85 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 11.29 |
| Orbital period | 5.77 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.22 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 3.12 – 3.31 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0296 |
| Inclination | 13.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 2.10 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.