1979 Sakharov (2006 P-L) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 24 1960 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at Palomar Observatory.It is named in honour of a distinguished Russian physicist Andrei Sakharov.
apoapsis (km)
3.90531e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.15406e+08
periapsis (km)
3.19645e+11
absolute magnitude
13.5
discovery date
1960-09-24
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels
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