4430 Govorukhin

ASTEROIDMain-belt asteroid

ILLUSTRATION · NO MEASURED PROPERTIES

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

4430 Govorukhin is a main-belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 2.99 . Its absolute magnitude () is 13.22. Other catalogues list it as 4430 Govorukhin (1978 SX6). It was discovered in 1978.

WHAT IT IS
Main-belt asteroid
HOW FAR
2.99

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

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
5.17

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 4430 Govorukhin 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

] 14 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.

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
5.175
Eccentricity
Inclination
12.71
Longitude of ascending node
352.31
Argument of perihelion
78.59
Mean anomaly
38.29
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2460999.6400
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
1.52
Orbit class
MBA

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

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

Discovered by
Zhuravleva, L. V.
Discovered from
Nauchnyj
Discovered on
1978-09-26
First observed
1978-09-26
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 4430
  • Asteroid 4430 Govorukhin (1978 SX6)
  • Common name Govorukhin
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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 Database4430

    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. 4430 Govorukhin [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/4430-govorukhin
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_4430-govorukhin,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{4430 Govorukhin}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/4430-govorukhin},
  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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