(10016) Yugan Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 26 September 1978 by L. V. Zhuravleva at Nauchnyj.
Yugan is the shortened name of Nefteyugansk, a town in western Siberia that is the center of the drilling operations of Ust'-Balyk and other oil fields.Naming citation (20040504/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yugan is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yugan is 2.79 au from the Sun and 3.78 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10016 |
| Provisional designation | 1978 SW7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.98 km (#15,263 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.500 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.33 |
| Orbital period | 3.85 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.46 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.11 – 2.80 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.140 |
| Inclination | 4.56° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.12 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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- (3558) Shishkin
- (3586) Vasnetsov
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