4135 Svetlanov

ASTEROIDMain-belt asteroid

ILLUSTRATION FROM SMASS TYPE Ch · ALBEDO 0.030 · RADIUS 12.1 KM

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

4135 Svetlanov is a main-belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 2.789 . Its effective radius is 12.1 . Its absolute magnitude () is 12.46. Other catalogues list it as 4135 Svetlanov (1966 PG). It was discovered in 1966.

WHAT IT IS
Main-belt asteroid
HOW FAR
2.789

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

HOW BIG
12.1

The radius of a ball that would look the same size — the body itself is not round.

HOW BRIGHT IN ITSELF (H)

How bright it would look from a fixed, standard distance — a measure of the object rather than of the view from here.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
4.65

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 4135 Svetlanov for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

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CATALOG DATA

] 17 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

WHAT KIND OF THING IT IS

What the object is in itself, rather than how it happens to look from here.

Spectral type (SMASS II)
Ch
Rotation period
10.559

HOW BRIGHT IT IS

What the light adds up to, measured through one filter at a time. A magnitude is a brightness on a backwards scale — the smaller the number, the brighter the object.

Albedo

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbital period
4.654
Eccentricity
Inclination
7.95
Longitude of ascending node
199.84
Argument of perihelion
175.49
Mean anomaly
276.79
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2461593.6500
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
1.14
Orbit class
MBA

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
Chernykh, L. I., Smirnova, T. M.
Discovered from
Nauchnyj
Discovered on
1966-08-14
First observed
1929-10-02
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 4135
  • Asteroid 4135 Svetlanov (1966 PG)
  • Common name Svetlanov
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

  • JPL Small-Body Database4135

    The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. 4135 Svetlanov [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/4135-svetlanov
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_4135-svetlanov,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{4135 Svetlanov}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/4135-svetlanov},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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