(6663) Tatebayashi
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Asteroid (6663) Tatebayashi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eunomia family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6697 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1310 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.3199 AU - 3.0195 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 13.8321 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 131.6399 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 95.2159 ° |
| Sidereal period | 4.36 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 18.23 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 9 km |
| Rotation period | 4.8 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Takao Kobayashi |
| Date of discovery | February 12, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 CC , 1977 RA 1 |
| 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. | |
(6663) Tatebayashi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 February 1991 by the Japanese astronomer Takao Kobayashi at Oizumi Observatory ( IAU code in 411) Oizumi , Gunma Prefecture was discovered in Japan. The asteroid was already observed on September 7, 1977 under the provisional designation 1977 RA 1 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj .
The asteroid belongs to the Eunomia family, a group named after (15) Eunomia , to which probably five percent of the asteroids in the main belt belong.
(6663) Tatebayashi was named on February 2, 1999 after the city of Tatebayashi in Gunma Prefecture on Honshū , the birthplace of the first Japanese female astronaut Chiaki Mukai and the writer Tayama Katai , who is one of the most important representatives of Japanese naturalism.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tatebayashi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tatebayashi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6663) Tatebayashi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (6663) Tatebayashi on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)