(20193) Yakushima
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Asteroid (20193) Yakushima |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6548 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2002 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1234 AU - 3.1863 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 10.5603 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 316.9341 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 31.3015 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.33 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer | Naoto Sato |
| Date of discovery | January 18, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 BH 8 , 1965 UH 2 , 1998 FB 108 |
| Source: Unless otherwise stated, the data comes from JPL Small-Body Database Browser . The affiliation to an asteroid family is automatically determined from the AstDyS-2 database . Please also note the note on asteroid items. | |
(20193) Yakushima is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 18 January 1997 by Japanese amateur astronomers Naoto Satō at his private observatory ( IAU code 369) in Chichibu in Saitama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid on 12 October 2011 after the in named Kagoshima Prefecture located Ōsumi Island Yakushima , the Japanese cedar forest in the 1993 list of World Natural Heritage of the UNESCO was taken. On July 22nd, 2009, the first total solar eclipse in Japan in 46 years was observed on the island .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Yakushima: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (20193) Yakushima in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (20193) Yakushima in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).