(5513) Yukio

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Asteroid
(5513) Yukio
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.2110  AU
eccentricity 0.0545
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0905 AU - 2.3315 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 1.6607 °
Length of the ascending node 289.7631 °
Argument of the periapsis 184.4963 °
Sidereal period 3.29 a
Mean orbital velocity 20.02 km / s
Physical Properties
Absolute brightness 13.6 mag
history
Explorer Watari Kakei
Minoru Kizawa
Takeshi Urata
Date of discovery November 27, 1988
Another name 1988 WB , 1978 SB 6 , 1981 RH 4
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(5513) Yukio is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 27 November 1988 by the Japanese astronomer Watari Kakei , Minoru Kizawa and Takeshi Urata at the Oohira station of Nihondaira Observatory ( IAU code 385) in Shizuoka Prefecture was discovered.

The asteroid was named after the Japanese amateur astronomer and telescope designer Yukio Hasegawa (* 1950), with whose self-made telescopes several asteroids and the periodic comet 112P / Urata-Niijima were discovered.

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