(2297) Daghestan

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( 2297 ) Daghestan is an asteroid of the outer main belt, which was discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh on 1 September 1978 from the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095).

Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid it had previously been several in March 1931 (1931 EJ ) at the Heidelberg State Observatory king chair, on April 26, 1954 ( 1954 HL) at the Observatoire Royal de Belgique in Uccle, in October 1956 (1956 TF and 1956 UP) and 8 March 1959 ( 1959 EC) at the Goethe Link Observatory, Indiana, on April 20, 1971 ( 1971 HF), January 1975 (1975 AP) and April 1976 (1976 GD) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on 18 June 1977 at New Zealand Mount John Observatory.

The mean diameter of ( 2297 ) Daghestan was determined with 25.80 ( ± 2.0 ) km. The surface is relatively dark with an albedo of 0.11 rounded up, comparable to that of the albedo ago with that of the planet Mercury. It is at ( 2297 ) Daghestan from a rotation period of just under 8 hours. This value is based on an examination of the light curve by James Brinsfield at the 36 -cm Schmidt- Cassegrain telescope of the Via Capote Observatory in Thousand Oaks, California, from 8 to 24 April, 2010, which earlier provisorischere observations by Raoul Behrend and René Roy confirmed at the Geneva observatory.

The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids, which was named after ( 24) Themis. The timeless ( nichtoskulierenden ) orbital elements of ( 2297 ) Daghestan are almost identical to those of the two smaller, if we start from the absolute brightness of 14.4 and 15.5 against 11.3, asteroid ( 33264 ) 1998 HM56 and ( 198736 ) 2005 EB28.

( 2297 ) Daghestan was named after the Dagestani ASSR on 1 January 1981, an autonomous Soviet republic in the Caucasus.