(6340) Kathmandu
Asteroid (6340) Kathmandu |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
Asteroid family | Ashkova group |
Major semi-axis | 3.2277 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1419 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7697 AU - 3.6857 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.2945 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 77.8914 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 70.4533 ° |
Time of passage of the perihelion | July 27, 2018 |
Sidereal period | 5.80 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.58 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 19.078 (± 0.250) km |
Albedo | 0.064 (± 0.007) |
Absolute brightness | 12.3 mag |
history | |
Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
Date of discovery | October 15, 1993 |
Another name | 1993 TF 2 , 1978 EA 5 , 1986 PS 3 , 1989 AA 1 , 1990 HS 4 , 1990 HX 4 |
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. |
(6340) Kathmandu is an asteroid of the main outer belt discovered on October 16, 1993 by Japanese amateur astronomers Kin Endate and Kazurō Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) on Hokkaidō . There had been several sightings of the asteroid before: on March 6, 1978 under the provisional designation 1978 EA 5 at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj , on August 1, 1986 (1986 PS 3 ) at the Palomar Observatory in California , in January 1989 ( 1989 AA 1 ) at the Kushiro Observatory in the Kushiro Shitsugen National Park on Hokkaidō, on April 17, 1990 (1990 HX 4 ) at the Crimean Observatory in Nautschnyj and on April 22, 1990 (1990 HS 4 ) at the Palomar Mountain Observatory.
The asteroid belongs to the Ashkova group, an AstDyS asteroid family, which was named after (3460) Ashkova .
(6340) Kathmandu was named on July 1, 1996 after the Nepalese capital Kathmandu . The name was proposed by the Japanese astronomer Isao Satō .
See also
Web links
- (6340) Kathmandu in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6340) Kathmandu in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena , California (English)
- Discovery Circumstances of (6340) Kathmandu according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Observations from (6340) Kathmandu on minorplanetcenter.net (English)
- ↑ The family affiliation of (6340) Kathmandu in the database AstDyS-2 (English)