(19707) Tokunai

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Asteroid
(19707) Tokunai
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt
Major semi-axis 2.2515  AU
eccentricity 0.1903
Perihelion - aphelion 1.8230 AU - 2.6801 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 4.6921 °
Length of the ascending node 81.3107 °
Argument of the periapsis 274.6661 °
Sidereal period 3.38 a
Mean orbital velocity 19.84 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.7 mag
history
Explorer T. Ōkuni
Date of discovery October 8, 1999
Another name 1999 TZ 12 , 1982 VF 9 , 1992 QG 1 , 1998 HC 83
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(19707) Tokunai is an asteroid of the main belt , the October 8, 1999 by Japanese amateur astronomers Tomimaru Okuni at the Observatory of Nan'yō ( IAU code 358) in the Yamagata Prefecture was discovered.

The asteroid was named on July 13, 2004 after the Japanese samurai , geographer and explorer Mogami Tokunai (1755-1836), who explored and mapped Hokkaidō , Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands from 1785 to 1786 .

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