(4714) Toyohiro

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Asteroid
(4714) Toyohiro
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  September 30, 2012 ( JD 2,456,200.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Asteroid family Eos family
Major semi-axis 3.0192  AU
eccentricity 0.1262
Perihelion - aphelion 2.6381 AU - 3.4003 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 9.8435 °
Sidereal period 5.25 a
Mean orbital velocity 17.14 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter approx. 19 km in diameter
Absolute brightness 11.5 likes
history
Explorer Tetsuya Fujii
Kazuo Watanabe
Date of discovery September 29, 1989
Another name 1989 SH, 1978 GD 4 , 1978 JG 3 , 1986 SL
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(4714) Toyohiro is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 29 September 1989 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Tetsuya Fujii and Kazuo Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in the prefecture of Hokkaido was discovered.

The asteroid was named after the Japanese journalist and astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama (* 1942), who in December 1990 became the first Japanese to fly into space on board Soyuz TM-11 and spent a week on the Mir space station .

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