1140 Crimea

Infobox Planet
minorplanet = yes
bgcolour = #FFFFC0
name = 1140 Crimea cite web | title="JPL Small-Body Database Browser" | url=http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=1140 | accessdate= October 17 | accessyear= 2007 ]
discovery = yes
discoverer = Neujmin, G.
discovered = 1929-Dec-30
epoch = Orbital Elements at Epoch 2454400.5 (2007-Oct-27.0) TDB
aphelion = 3.0809833 AU
perihelion = 2.4641619 AU
semimajor = 2.7725726 AU
eccentricity = 0.1112363
period = 1686.2532792 days
4.62 years
inclination = 14.13273 °
asc_node = 72.19717 °
mean_anomaly = 14.32198 °
arg_peri = 311.23822 °
physical_characteristics = yes| dimensions = diameter 27.75
albedo = 0.1772
spectral_type = S (Tholen) S (SSMASSII)
abs_magnitude = 10.28 mag
rotation= 9.77 h

1140 Crimea is a Main-belt Asteroid orbiting the Sun. Approximately 28 kilometers in diameter, it makes a revolution around the Sun once every 5 years. It completes one rotation once every 10 hours. It was discovered by Grigory Nikolaevich Neujmin on December 30, 1929 at the Simeiz Observatory. It is named for the southern peninsula of Ukraine, Crimea (at the time part of the Russian SFSR), extending into the Black Sea where Simeis is located. Its provisional designation was 1929 YC. [cite book |last= Schmadel |first= Lutz D. |title= Dictionary of Minor Planet Names |publisher= Springer |year= 2003 |isbn= 3540002383 ]

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