(7038) Tokorozawa
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Asteroid (7038) Tokorozawa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Themis family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.2004 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1729 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.6471 AU - 3.7537 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 0.5303 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 44.4750 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 4.9382 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.73 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 12.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Naoto Satō Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | February 22, 1995 |
| Another name | 1995 DJ 2 , 1953 TS 1 , 1981 SJ 9 , 1989 BU 1 , 1989 CG 4 , 1992 OL 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. | |
(7038) Tokorozawa is an asteroid of the outer main belt , of February 22, 1995 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Naoto Satō and Takeshi Urata at the observatory of Chichibu ( IAU code 369) in Saitama Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Themis family, a group of asteroids named after (24) Themis .
(7038) Tokorozawa was named on June 15, 2011 after the Japanese city of Tokorozawa , which is known as the "birthplace of Japanese aviation" as the first airfield in Japan was opened here in 1911 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tokorozawa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tokorozawa in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (7038) Tokorozawa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family affiliation of (7038) Tokorozawa in the AstDyS-2 database (English)