(4677) Hiroshi

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Asteroid
(4677) Hiroshi
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Themis family
Major semi-axis 3.1323  AU
eccentricity 0.1944
Perihelion - aphelion 2.5235 AU - 3.7411 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 0.4822 °
Length of the ascending node 11.9785 °
Sidereal period 5.54 a
Mean orbital velocity 16.82 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 12.6 mag
history
Explorer Atsushi Takahashi
Kazurō Watanabe
Date of discovery September 26, 1990
Another name 1990 SQ 4 , 1968 UF 1 , 1976 GZ 4 , 1979 TX 1 , 1979 WR, 1981 EF 49
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(4677) Hiroshi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 September 1990 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in the prefecture of Hokkaido was discovered.

The asteroid was named after the Japanese astronomer Hiroshi Kaneda (* 1953), who together with his colleague Seiji Ueda discovered more than 700 asteroids.

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