(8498) Ufa Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 15 September 1990 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.
The city of Ufa is a large industrial and cultural center in the south Urals. Founded in 1574, it is the capital of Bashkir, a republic in the Russian Federation.Naming citation (20000124/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ufa is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ufa is 2.72 au from the Sun and 1.93 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8498 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 RM17 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 9.46 km (#5,442 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.180 |
| Rotation period | 21.0 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.95 |
| Orbital period | 5.19 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.00 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.67 – 3.33 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.111 |
| Inclination | 10.3° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.68 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 15 September 1990
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- (5681) Bakulev
- (6134) Kamagari
- (6311) Porubcan
- (13049) Butov
- (15258) Alfilipenko
- (21043) Pascalwillis
- (30821) Chernetenko
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- (1959) Karbyshev
- (2015) Kachuevskaya
- (2098) Zyskin
- (2130) Evdokiya
- (2173) Maresjev
- (2188) Orlenok
- (2233) Kuznetsov
- (2283) Bunke
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