9927 Tyutchev
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9927 Tyutchev is a main belt asteroid. It orbit
Orbit
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s the Sun
Sun
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 once every 3.30 years.

Discovered on October 3, 1981 by Lyudmila Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina
Lyudmila Georgievna Karachkina is a Soviet and Ukrainian astronomer.Working at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1978, she has discovered a number of asteroids, including the Amor asteroid 5324 Lyapunov and the Trojan asteroid 3063 Makhaon. She has received a Ph.D. in astronomy from I. I...

 at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
The Crimean Astrophysical Observatory is located in Ukraine. CrAO has been publishing the Bulletin of the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory since 1947, in English since 1977. The observatory facilities are located near the settlement of Nauchny since the mid-1950s; before that, they were further...

, it was given the provisional designation "". It was later renamed "Tyutchev" after the Russian poet "Fedor Ivanovich Tyutchev".
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