Key facts
- Discovered by
- E. W. Elst V. G. Shkodrov
- Discovery site
- Rozhen Obs. – Smolyan
- Discovery date
- 22 September 1987
- Pronunciation
- / ˈ m ɪ θ r ə /
- Named after
- Mithra , ( proto-Indo-Iranian religion )
- Alternative designations
- 1987 SB 1974 DN 1
- Minor planet category
- NEO Apollo PHA
- Observation arc
- 29.04 yr (10,607 days)
- Aphelion
- 3.6582 AU
- Perihelion
- 0.7417 AU
- Semi major axis
- 2.2000 AU
- Orbital period sidereal
- 3.26 yr (1,192 days)
- Mean anomaly
- 91.928 °
- Mean motion
- 0° 18 7.2 / day
- Inclination
- 3.0395°
- Longitude of ascending node
- 82.240°
- Time of perihelion
- 2023-May-15
- Argument of perihelion
- 168.87°
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- near-Earth asteroid
- Named after
- Mitra
- Followed by
- 4487 Pocahontas
- Follows
- 4485 Radonezhskij
- Parent body
- Sun
- Minor-planet group
- asteroid belt
- Diameter
- 1.849
- Orbital period
- 1197.012503135884
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- discoverer or inventor
- Eric Walter Elst
- site of astronomical discovery
- Rozhen Observatory
- provisional designation
- 1987 SB
- time of discovery or invention
- 1987-09-22
- argument of periapsis
- 169.2638039476093
- orbital inclination
- 3.030844964262606
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.6600236371404584
- absolute magnitude
- 15.61
- periapsis
- 0.7500937785356551
- apoapsis
- 3.662529335769206
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 2.206311557152431
- rotation period
- 67.5
- mean anomaly
- 276.290532018642
- longitude of ascending node
- 82.17788251792278
- Commons category
- 4486 Mithra
- albedo
- 0.297
- time of periapsis
- 2461278.836888346
- epoch
- November 21, 2025
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Encyclopedic overview
4486 Mithra (prov. designation: 1987 SB), is an eccentric asteroid and suspected contact-binary, classified as near-Earth object and potentially hazardous asteroid, approximately 2 kilometers in diameter. It belongs to the Apollo group of asteroids and is a relatively slow rotator.
The asteroid was discovered on 22 September 1987, by Belgian astronomer Eric Elst and Bulgarian astronomer Vladimir Shkodrov at Rozhen Observatory, in the Smolyan Province of Bulgaria. It was named after the Indo-Iranian divinity Mithra.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “4486 Mithra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.