2678 Aavasaksa information

2678 Aavasaksa
Discovery
Discovered by	Y. Väisälä
Discovery site	Turku Obs.
Discovery date	24 February 1938
Designations
MPC designation	(2678) Aavasaksa
Named after	Aavasaksa; (hill in Finnish Lapland)
Alternative designations	1938 DF1 · 1952 KM; 1955 DH · 1977 SX1; 1979 FP2 · A916 WA
Minor planet category	main-belt · Flora
Orbital characteristics
	Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5)
	Uncertainty parameter 0
Observation arc	79.20 yr (28,927 days)
Aphelion	2.4553 AU
Perihelion	2.0636 AU
Semi-major axis	2.2594 AU
Eccentricity	0.0867
Orbital period (sidereal)	3.40 yr (1,240 days)
Mean anomaly	204.08°
Mean motion	0° 17m 24.72s / day
Inclination	3.4446°
Longitude of ascending node	54.033°
Argument of perihelion	45.844°
Physical characteristics
Dimensions	8.19 km (calculated); 8.371±0.096 km
Synodic rotation period	24 h
Geometric albedo	0.24 (assumed); 0.276±0.037
Spectral type	S
Absolute magnitude (H)	12.4 · 12.6

2678 Aavasaksa, provisional designation 1938 DF₁, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.

The asteroid was discovered on 24 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland.^[7] It was named for the Aavasaksa hill in Finland.^[2]

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