(6100) Kunitomoikkansai
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Asteroid (6100) Kunitomoikkansai |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3291 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1352 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.0142 AU - 2.6441 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 3.3986 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 303.9866 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 69.0357 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.55 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.51 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 13.4 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Atsushi Sugie |
| Date of discovery | November 9, 1991 |
| Another name | 1991 VK 4 , 1987 RB 2 , 1987 SB 16 |
| 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. | |
(6100) Kunitomoikkansai is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 9 November 1991 by Japanese astronomers Atsushi Sugie on Dynic Astronomical Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 402) in Japan.
It was named on December 8, 1998 after the Japanese armorer and inventor of the Edo period Kunitomo Ikkansai (1778–1840), who studied western technology in the course of Rangaku and in 1831 built a Gregory telescope whose 60x magnification allowed him to make detailed observations of sunspots and the topography of the moon.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kunitomoikkansai: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Kunitomoikkansai in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6100) Kunitomoikkansai in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).