(6338) Isaosato
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Asteroid (6338) Isaosato |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Outer main belt |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1654 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0921 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.8740 AU - 3.4568 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 15.3165 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 75.0121 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 210.9897 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.63 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.74 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 23.065 ± 0.428 km |
| Albedo | 0.069 ± 0.014 |
| Absolute brightness | 11.9 likes |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | October 26, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 UO 4 , 1987 XZ |
| 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. | |
(6338) Isaosato is an asteroid of the outer main belt , of October 26, 1992 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) in the sub-prefecture Okhotsk in Hokkaido was discovered.
It was named after the Japanese astronomer Isao Satō (* 1963), who made the first photographic observation of a star being covered by an asteroid in 1991.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Isaosato: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Isaosato in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6338) Isaosato in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).