2678 Aavasaksa
| Discovery | |
|---|---|
| Discovered by | Y. Väisälä |
| Discovery site | Turku Obs. |
| Discovery date | 24 February 1938 |
| Designations | |
| (2678) Aavasaksa | |
Named after | Aavasaksa (hill in Finnish Lapland) |
| 1938 DF1 · 1952 KM 1955 DH · 1977 SX1 1979 FP2 · A916 WA | |
| main-belt · Flora | |
| Orbital characteristics | |
| Epoch 4 September 2017 (JD 2458000.5) | |
| Uncertainty parameter 0 | |
| Observation arc | 79.20 yr (28,927 days) |
| Aphelion | 2.4553 AU |
| Perihelion | 2.0636 AU |
| 2.2594 AU | |
| Eccentricity | 0.0867 |
| 3.40 yr (1,240 days) | |
| 204.08° | |
| 0° 17m 24.72s / day | |
| Inclination | 3.4446° |
| 54.033° | |
| 45.844° | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Dimensions | 8.19 km (calculated) 8.371±0.096 km |
| 24 h | |
| 0.24 (assumed) 0.276±0.037 | |
| S | |
| 12.4 · 12.6 | |
2678 Aavasaksa, provisional designation 1938 DF1, is a stony Flora asteroid from the inner regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 8 kilometers in diameter.
The asteroid was discovered on 24 February 1938, by Finnish astronomer Yrjö Väisälä at Turku Observatory in Southwest Finland. It was named for the Aavasaksa hill in Finland.