10010 Rudruna

10010 Rudruna (1978 PW3) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on August 9, 1978 by husband and wife team Nikolai and Lyudmila Chernykh at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. It is named after the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Russian: Российский университет дружбы народов, Rossijskij universitet druzhby narodov).^[1]

10010 Rudruna

10010 Rudruna's orbit (shown in gray)
Discovery
Discovered by	N. S. Chernykh and L. I. Chernykh
Discovery site	Crimean Astrophysical Observatory
Discovery date	August 9, 1978
Designations
MPC designation	10010
Named after	Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Alternative designations	1978 PW3
Orbital characteristics
Epoch May 14, 2008
Aphelion	2.8237765
Perihelion	2.1010597
Eccentricity	0.1467494
Orbital period (sidereal)	1411.3707951
Mean anomaly	263.60713
Inclination	6.43066
Longitude of ascending node	169.30848
Argument of perihelion	140.39870
Physical characteristics
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.3

Physical characteristics

The asteroid belongs to the V-type taxonomic class.

Based on observations from the Pan-STARRS (Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System) telescope network and observations from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), the asteroid's absolute magnitude was initially estimated to be 14.39 ± 0.20^m (Vereš, P., et al. 2015),^[2] and later, 14,40 ± 0,137^m (Mahlke, M., et al. 2021).^[3]