(3073) Kursk

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( 3073 ) Kursk is an asteroid of the inner main belt, which was discovered by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Chernykh on 24 September 1979 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095). An unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid, there had been at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj already under the provisional designation 1979 SW11 in November 1969.

The Italian astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà defined in a 1995 publication ( et al. ) Of seniority ( 3073 ) Kursk to the Flora family, a large group of asteroids that is named after ( 8) flora. Asteroids of this family move in an orbital resonance of 4:9 with the planet Mars around the Sun. The group is also called Ariadne family after the asteroid (43 ) Ariadne.

( 3073 ) Kursk was named after the western Russian city of Kursk on July 2, 1985.

Moon S/2007 ( 3073 ) 1

In photometric observations of ( 3073 ) Kursk from 11 to 27 December 2006 noted that the asteroid has a companion, which has about a quarter of its size. Both bodies orbit a common center of gravity in 44.96 (± 0.02) hours. The companions received the provisional designation S/2007 ( 3073 ) 1