(5140) Kida

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Asteroid
(5140) Kida
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 3.1745  AU
eccentricity 0.1217
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7882 AU - 3.5608 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 11.4640 °
Length of the ascending node 163.7523 °
Argument of the periapsis 216.1901 °
Sidereal period 5.66 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.70 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 19.38 km (± 0.19)
Albedo 0.131 ± 0.004
Absolute brightness 11.6 mag
history
Explorer Seiji Ueda
Hiroshi Kaneda
Date of discovery December 8, 1990
Another name 1990 XH , 1950 TP 3 , 1953 FC 1 , 1967 TF, 1976 GH 6 , 1978 RG
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(5140) Kida is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 8 December 1990 by the Japanese astronomer Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the observatory in Kushiro ( IAU code 399) on the island of Hokkaido was discovered.

The asteroid was named on December 24, 1996 after the Hokkaidō-born painter Kinjirō Kida (1893–1962), whose works are often compared with important impressionists such as Paul Cézanne .

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