(6980) Kyusakamoto
Asteroid (6980) Kyusakamoto |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Koronis family |
Major semi-axis | 2.8347 AU |
eccentricity | 0.0464 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7030 AU - 2.9663 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.2909 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 97.4610 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 211.5758 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | November 7, 2016 |
Sidereal period | 4.77 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 17.69 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 8.791 (± 0.081) km |
Albedo | 0.301 (± 0.037) |
Rotation period | 3.2529 h |
Absolute brightness | 12.4 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
Date of discovery | September 16, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 SV 1 , 1979 WH 2 , 1988 RU 13 |
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. |
(6980) Kyusakamoto is an asteroid of the main belt , of September 16, 1993 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) on Hokkaido was discovered.
The celestial body is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis .
The asteroid was on 5 October 1998 after the Japanese singer and actor Kyū Sakamoto named (1941-1985), in 1963 with the song Sukiyaki the number 1 of the US charts and an international bestseller created, which subsequently at least 150 times was covered.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (3457) Arnenordheim in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- (6980) Kyusakamoto in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6980) Kyusakamoto in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances by (6980) Kyusakamoto according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)