(4842) Atsushi
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Asteroid (4842) Atsushi |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.2507 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1568 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8978 AU - 2.6036 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.4680 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 225.4833 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 78.1109 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.38 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.85 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Seiji Ueda , Hiroshi Kaneda |
| Date of discovery | November 21, 1989 |
| Another name | 1989 WK , 1948 RE, 1962 XF 1 , 1979 YF 5 , 1985 OG |
| 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. | |
(4842) Atsushi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 21 November 1989 by the Japanese astronomer Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at the observatory in Kushiro ( IAU code was discovered 399).
The asteroid was named after the Japanese amateur astronomer Atsushi Takahashi (* 1965) who lived in Kitami on Hokkaidō .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Atsushi: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Atsushi in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (4842) Atsushi in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).