(6832) Kawabata

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Asteroid
(6832) Kawabata
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Main outer belt asteroid
Asteroid family Ashkova group
Major semi-axis 3.2217  AU
eccentricity 0.1485
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7434 AU - 3.7000 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.8878 °
Length of the ascending node 52.1660 °
Argument of the periapsis 179.3464 °
Time of passage of the perihelion 29th September 2015
Sidereal period 5.78 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.62 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 11.802 (± 0.107) km
Albedo 0.116 (± 0.007)
Absolute brightness 13.0 likes
history
Explorer Kin Endate
Kazurō Watanabe
Date of discovery March 23, 1992
Another name 1992 FP , 1978 WG 9 , 1990 XR 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.

(6832) Kawabata is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered by Japanese amateur astronomers Kin Endate and Kazurō Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) on Hokkaidō on March 23, 1992 .

The celestial body belongs to the Ashkova group, an asteroid family named after (3460) Ashkova .

The asteroid was named on August 8, 1998 after the Japanese writer Yasunari Kawabata (1899–1972), who was awarded the 1968 Nobel Prize for Literature . Since 1974, the Kawabata Memorial Foundation, financed by the Nobel Prize money, has awarded the Kawabata Yasunari Literature Prize for outstanding short stories and short stories.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ (6832) Kawabata in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).

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