(6097) Koishikawa
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Asteroid (6097) Koishikawa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Vesta family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3073 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0932 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0921 AU - 2.5225 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 6.1337 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 204.9146 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 204.9503 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.50 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.61 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Albedo | ? |
| Rotation period | 2.85979 h |
| Absolute brightness | 13.3 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | October 29, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 UK 2 , 1942 VV, 1986 GX 1 |
| 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. | |
(6097) Koishikawa is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 29 October 1991 by the Japanese astronomer Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in Kitami in Hokkaido was discovered, the second largest island of Japan. The first sightings of the asteroid had already been made in November 1942 at the observatory of the University of Turku (IAU code 062) under the provisional designation 1942 VV.
The asteroid belongs to the Vesta family , a large group of asteroids named after (4) Vesta , the second largest asteroid and third largest celestial body in the main belt.
It was named on April 4, 1996 after the Japanese astronomer Masahiro Koishikawa (* 1952), who discovered several asteroids while working at the Sendai Observatory at the Ayashi Station there and tries to establish astronomy as part of social education in the public consciousness.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Koishikawa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Koishikawa in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6097) Koishikawa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations by (6097) Koishikawa on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)