(4743) Kikuchi
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Asteroid (4743) Kikuchi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2674 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0996 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0416 AU - 2.4932 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 4.8711 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.41 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.78 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.5 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Tetsuya Fujii Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | February 16, 1988 |
| Another name | 1988 DA, 1978 GD 4 , 1978 JG 3 , 1986 SL |
| 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. | |
(4743) Kikuchi is an asteroid of the main belt , of February 16, 1988 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Tetsuya Fujii and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in the prefecture of Hokkaido was discovered.
The asteroid was named after the Japanese astronaut Ryōko Kikuchi (* 1964), who was intended as a substitute for the first Japanese astronaut Toyohiro Akiyama .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kikuchi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (4743) Kikuchi in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (4743) Kikuchi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).