2697 Albina
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2697 Albina, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous
asteroid An asteroid is a minor planet of the inner Solar System. Sizes and shapes of asteroids vary significantly, ranging from 1-meter rocks to a dwarf planet almost 1000 km in diameter; they are rocky, metallic or icy bodies with no atmosphere. ...
from the outer region of the asteroid belt, approximately 52 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 9 October 1969, by Russian astronomer
Bella Burnasheva Bella Alekseïevna Bournasheva (Бэлла Алексеевна Бурнашева, b. 1944) is a Soviet–Russian astronomer credited with the discovery of several asteroids. The minor planet 4427 Burnashev was named in honour of her an ...
at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, Nauchnyj, on the Crimean peninsula. The asteroid was later named after Russian astronomer Albina Serova.


Orbit and classification

''Albina'' orbits the Sun in the
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External links


Asteroid Lightcurve Database (LCDB)
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Dictionary of Minor Planet Names
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– Observatoire de Genève, Raoul Behrend

– Minor Planet Center * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Albina 002697 002697 Discoveries by Bella A. Burnasheva Named minor planets 19691009