(8089) Yukar Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 13 October 1990 by Schmadel, L. D., Borngen, F. at Tautenburg.
Yurij Vasil'evich Karachkin (b. 1940) is a teacher of physics at the school of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory at Nauchnyj. Many of his pupils entered a university education. ‘Yukar’ is the husband of Lyudmila Karachkina, discoverer of more than 100 minor planets and dear friend of the first discoverer.Naming citation (19991123/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yukar is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yukar is 1.95 au from the Sun and 0.969 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8089 |
| Provisional designation | 1990 TW7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 5.69 km (#9,428 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0310 |
| Rotation period | 3.61 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.13 |
| Orbital period | 3.61 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.35 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.83 – 2.88 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.223 |
| Inclination | 6.04° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.842 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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