(5404) Uemura
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Asteroid (5404) Uemura |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2548 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0663 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.1054 AU - 2.4042 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 9.8930 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 14.8099 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 328.0785 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.39 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.83 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Rotation period | 3,449 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.9 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
K. Endate, K. Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | March 15, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 EE 1 , 1948 QJ, 1955 SJ 2 , 1979 VA 2 , 1979 YB 1 , 1982 SD 11 , 1982 UA 12 |
| 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. | |
(5404) Uemura is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 March 1991 by the Japanese astronomer Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( observatory code 400) in Kitami in Hokkaido was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Japanese adventurer and mountaineer Naomi Uemura (1941-1984), who had conquered five of the Seven Summits by 1970 , before he had a fatal accident in February 1984 during a solo winter ascent of Mount McKinley .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Uemura: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Uemura in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (5404) Uemura in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).