(2767) Takenouchi

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Asteroid
(2767) Takenouchi
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  April 27, 2019 ( JD 2,458,600.5)
Orbit type Outer main belt
Asteroid family Eos family
Major semi-axis 3.0221 ± 0.0002  AU
eccentricity 0.0806 ± 0.0004
Perihelion - aphelion 2.7785 ± 0.0011 AU - 3.2656 ± 0.0002 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 10.8877 ± 0.0447 °
Length of the ascending node 65.8585 ± 0.2098 °
Argument of the periapsis 252.9503 ± 0.3457 °
Time of passage of the perihelion October 10, 2018
Sidereal period 5.25 a ± 0.1736 d
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 13.601 ± 0.174 km
Albedo 0.219 ± 0.047
Absolute brightness 11.6 mag
history
Explorer CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Luboš Kohoutek
Date of discovery October 30, 1967
Another name 1967 UM ; 1956 VA; 1980 GQ; 1982 RT
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.

(2767) Takenouchi ( 1967 UM ; 1956 VA ; 1980 GQ ; 1982 RT ) is an approximately 14 kilometers large asteroid of the outer main belt , which was discovered on October 30, 1967 by the Czech (then: Czechoslovakia ) astronomer Luboš Kohoutek at the Hamburg observatory in Hamburg -Bergedorf ( IAU code 029) was discovered. It belongs to the Eos family , a group of asteroids named after (221) Eos .

designation

(2767) Takenouchi was named after the Japanese astronomer Tadao Takenouchi (* 1922) who worked at the Department of Astronomy at the University of Tokyo , at the former Tokyo Astronomical Observatory (IAU code 389) and the Japanese space organizations National Space Development Agency and Institute of Space and Astronautical Science . In the 1950s he worked with the astronomer Hideo Hirose , after whom the asteroid (1612) Hirose is named. He studied the orbit of the asteroid (279) Thule .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lutz D. Schmadel : Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. Ed .: Lutz D. Schmadel. 5th edition. Springer Verlag , Berlin , Heidelberg 2003, ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 , pp.  186 (English, 992 pp., Link.springer.com [ONLINE; accessed on September 13, 2019] Original title: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names . First edition: Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg 1992): “1967 UM. Discovered 1967 Oct. 30 by L. Kohoutek at Bergedorf. "
predecessor asteroid successor
(2766) Leeuwenhoek numbering (2768) Gorky