(23644) Yamaneko
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Asteroid (23644) Yamaneko |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Massalia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3943 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1286 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0865 AU - 2.7022 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.1383 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 78.1603 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 112.8559 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.70 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.24 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Akimasa Nakamura |
| Date of discovery | January 13, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 AW 17 |
| 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. | |
(23644) Yamaneko is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 13 January 1997 by the Japanese astronomer Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma-Kōgen Observatory ( IAU code 360) in Kumakogen in the Japanese prefecture of Ehime was discovered.
The asteroid was named on July 24, 2002 after the Japanese Yamaneko Group of Comet Observers , founded in 1980 by Kiyotaka Ichikawa and Akimasa Nakamura.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Yamaneko: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (23644) Yamaneko in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (23644) Yamaneko in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).