(33553) Nagai

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Asteroid
(33553) Nagai
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  July 31, 2016 ( JD 2,457,600.5)
Orbit type Middle main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.5640  AU
eccentricity 0.0794
Perihelion - aphelion 2.3604 AU - 2.7677 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 6.8430 °
Length of the ascending node 125.7968 °
Argument of the periapsis 121.1501 °
Time of passage of the perihelion November 6, 2015
Sidereal period 4.11 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.61 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 3.266 (± 0.572) km
Albedo 0.346 (± 0.236)
Absolute brightness 14.5 mag
history
Explorer Tomimaru Ōkuni
Date of discovery May 11, 1999
Another name 1999 JQ 17 , 2000 RA 71
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(33553) Nagai is an asteroid of the main middle belt discovered on May 11, 1999 by the Japanese astronomer Tomimaru Ōkuni at the Observatory in Nan'yō ( IAU code 358), Yamagata Prefecture .

The asteroid was named on March 18, 2003 after Nagai in Yamagata Prefecture. There, on May 30, 1922, a meteorite of the type L6 ( olivine-hypersthene-chondrite ) of 1810 grams hit a rice field . The meteorite was also given the official name Nagai .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. The asteroid Nagai in the Meteoritical Bulletin (English)