(6208) Wakata
Asteroid (6208) Wakata |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 2.2536 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0951 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0393 AU - 2.4679 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.8584 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 249.9268 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 242.2796 ° |
Sidereal period | 3.38 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 19.84 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Absolute brightness | 13.9 likes |
history | |
Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazuo Watanabe |
Date of discovery | 3rd December 1988 |
Another name | 1988 XT , 1981 VH |
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. |
(6208) Wakata is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 3 December 1988 by the Japanese astronomer Kin EnDate and Kazuo Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in Hokkaido was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Japanese astronaut Kōichi Wakata .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Wakata: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Wakata in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6208) Wakata in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).