(16807) Terasako
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Asteroid (16807) Terasako |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2792 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1048 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0403 AU - 2.5180 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.3125 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 128.4716 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 339.2325 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.44 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.72 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 15.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Akimasa Nakamura |
| Date of discovery | October 12, 1997 |
| Another name | 1997 TW 25 , 1990 RZ 12 |
| 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. | |
(16807) Terasako is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 October 1997 by the Japanese astronomer Akimasa Nakamura at Kuma-Kōgen Observatory ( IAU code 360) in the small town Kumakogen in the Japanese prefecture of Ehime was discovered.
The asteroid was named on August 4, 2001 after the Japanese amateur astronomer Masanori Terasako (* 1951), who has been searching for comets using optical means since 1971 and who discovered comet C / 1987 B2 (Terasako) after 1,374 search hours in 1987 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Terasako: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (16807) Terasako in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- (16807) Terasako in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).