(2610) Tuva

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( 2610 ) Tuva is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh on September 5, 1978 from the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously given in March 1939 (1939 EC) on Iso - Heikkilä Observatory, University of Turku, on 29 March 1955 ( 1955 FV) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana, and on March 26, 1977 (1977 FS1) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj. The provisional designation 1978 RQ was also awarded for a sighting of the asteroids in Nautschnyj.

The rotation period of the asteroid was at observations on 13, 14, 15, 17 and 23 May, 2009 at 50 -cm Ritchey -Chrétien telescope of the Oakley Southern Sky Observatorys (IAU code E09 ) in Coonabarabran, New South Wales hours are determined with 4.2666 (± 0.0004 ).

( 2610 ) Tuva was named after the Siberian republic of Tuva on 11 December 1982.

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