(2208) Pushkin

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( 2208 ) Pushkin is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh on August 8, 1978 from the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been a number: for example, on April 22 in 1968 under the provisional designation 1968 HU and on February 2, 1973 ( 1973 AN3 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and in January and February 1978 at the at the Observatory purple mountain in Nanjing (1978 WJ14 ).

The asteroid belongs to the Cybele group, a family of asteroids beyond the Hecuba gap, which forms the outer boundary of the middle main belt. The orbits of the members are in 7:4 resonance to the planet Jupiter, which they are stabilized. The group was named after the asteroid (65 ) Cybele. As Asteroid spectral class D has ( 2208 ) Pushkin a reddish carbonaceous chondrites electromagnetic spectrum similar with a very dark surface. The albedo was determined to be 0.0497 (± 0.008), the mean diameter of 38.31 ( ± 2.8 ) km.

( 2208 ) Pushkin was called at 1 March 1981 by Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin ( 1799-1837 ), the Russian national poet, considered the founder of modern Russian literature. In 1976, an impact crater was named in the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury after Alexander Pushkin: Pushkin Mercury crater.