(254749) Kurosawa
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Asteroid (254749) Kurosawa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Middle main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | FO14 family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.6669 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0666 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.4893 AU - 2.8445 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.7091 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 132.5334 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 291.5836 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | June 15, 2015 |
| Sidereal period | 4.36 a |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 17.1 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Bernard Christophe |
| Date of discovery | August 10, 2005 |
| Another name | 2005 PE 6 , 2003 BU 41 , 2005 NO 70 |
| 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. | |
(254749) Kurosawa is an asteroid of the main middle belt discovered on August 10, 2005 by the French astronomer Bernard Christophe at the Saint-Sulpice Observatory ( IAU code 947) in Saint-Sulpice , Canton of Noailles .
In the AstDyS-2 database, (254749) Kurosawa is assigned to an unconfirmed, small asteroid family in which the asteroid (29841) 1999 FO 14 is given as the parent body .
(254749) Kurosawa was named after Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa on February 18, 2011 . An impact crater on the southern hemisphere of the planet Mercury , however, was named after the Japanese music collector from the 18th century Kinko Kurosawa : Merkurkrater Kurosawa .
Web links
- (254749) Kurosawa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (254749) Kurosawa in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (254749) Kurosawa according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Image by Bernard Christophe during the WETO 2012 conference (French)
- ↑ The family assignment of (254749) Kurosawa (English)
- ↑ The Merkur krater Kurosawa in the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature of the IAU (WGPSN) / USGS (English)