(6980) Kyusakamoto
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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)