(3232) Brest

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( 3232 ), Brest is an asteroid of the outer main belt, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Chernykh at September 19, 1974 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj (IAU code 095).

Unconfirmed sightings of the asteroid there had been several earlier: on April 5, 1946 ( 1946 GE ) on the Union Observatory in Johannesburg, on 5 March 1951 ( 1951 ER) and 4 November 1964 ( 1964 UN) at the Goethe Link Observatory in Indiana and in October 1969 (1969 TS5 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyi.

The asteroid is part of the Eos family, a group of asteroids, which typically have semi-major axes from 2.95 to 3.1 AE, bounded on the inside of the Kirkwood gap in the 7:3 resonance with Jupiter, and orbital inclinations between 8 ° and 12 degrees. The group is named after the asteroid (221 ​​) Eos. It is believed that the family was created over one billion years ago by a collision.

( 3232 ) Brest was named after the Belarusian city of Brest on 11 July 1987.

Longitude of the ascending node Argument of periapsis Orbital speed Intrinsic brightness Minor planet designation Crimean Astrophysical Observatory Goethe Link Observatory (221) Eos Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, California Minor Planet Center International Astronomical Union Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Cambridge (Massachusetts)
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