(6986) Asamayama
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Asteroid (6986) Asamayama |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Asteroid family | Koronis family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.9284 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0628 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7447 AU - 3.1122 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.3303 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 163.0160 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 306.6067 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | 22nd August 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 5.01 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.39 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 5.535 (± 0.351) km |
| Albedo | 0.191 (± 0.027) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | T. Kobayashi |
| Date of discovery | November 24, 1994 |
| Another name | 1994 WE , 1991 ET 2 , 1993 PL 2 |
| 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. | |
(6986) Asamayama is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 24 November 1994 by Japanese amateur astronomer Takao Kobayashi at Oizumi Observatory ( IAU code 411) in the Japanese prefecture of Gunma was discovered.
The asteroid is a member of the Koronis family, a group of asteroids named after (158) Koronis.
The celestial body was named on January 6, 2003 after the volcano Asama , which lies on the border between the prefectures of Gunma and Nagano and is the most active volcano on the island of Honshu .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family membership of (6986) Asamayama in the AstDyS-2 database (English)
Web links
- (6986) Asamayama in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6986) Asamayama 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 (6986) Asamayama according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)