2644 Victor Jara

Infobox Minor Planet
name=2644 Victor Jara
discoverer=Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh
discovery_date=September 22, 1973
category=Main belt
designations=1973SO2
epoch=JD 2 445 600,5
semimajor=2.1701781 AU
perihelion=1,8119613 AU
aphelion=2.5285179 AU
period=1167.7274389 d (3.20 a)
speed=
eccentricity=0,1651867
inclination=2,6803761°°
arg_peri=308,7616233°
asc_node=347,2932314°
mean_anomaly=217.79821°
dimensions=23 km
mass=
density=
gravity=
escape_velocity=
rotation=
spectral_class=
abs_mag=13,80
albedo=0.15
temperature=

2644 Victor Jara is a minor planet orbiting the Sun in the Solar System. Initially it received the designation 1973 SO2. The numerical designation indicates that it was the 2644 minor planet/asteroid discovered.

2644 Victor Jara was discovered by Soviet/Russian astronomer/astrophysicist Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh at the scientific town of Nauchnyj, Crimea, on September 22, 1973 .

Meaning of name

Chernykh named the asteroid in honor of the Chilean folk singer Victor Jara who was murdered shortly after the military coup of September 11, 1973 that ended the democratically elected government of the socialist Salvador Allende Gossens.

Victor Jara toured the Soviet Union in the 1960s and praised its culture, its scientific achievements and the friendliness of its working people.

ee also

* List of Numbered Minor Planets
*List of Astronomical Topics
*Minor Planet Centre

External links

olar System Dynamics (JPL/NASA)

* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2644;orb=1;cov=0#orb 2644 Victor Jara – 3D Orbit Diagram]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons.cgi?find_body=1&body_group=sb&sstr=2644 Generate Ephemerides for 2644 Victor Jara]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2644;orb=1;cov=0#elem The Orbital Elements of 2644 Victor Jara]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2644;orb=1;cov=0#phys_par 2644 Victor Jara Physical Parameters]
* [http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=2644;orb=1;cov=0#discovery Discovery Circumstances]