(6606) Makino
Asteroid (6606) Makino |
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Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
Major semi-axis | 3.1028 AU |
eccentricity | 0.1712 |
Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5715 AU - 3.6341 AU |
Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.0219 ° |
Length of the ascending node | 207.7099 ° |
Argument of the periapsis | 114.5324 ° |
Sidereal period | 5.47 a |
Mean orbital velocity | 16.91 km / s |
Physical Properties | |
Medium diameter | 26.00 km (± 1.8) |
Albedo | 0.0287 |
Absolute brightness | 12.7 mag |
history | |
Explorer | Tsutomu Seki |
Date of discovery | October 16, 1990 |
Another name | 1990 UF , 1977 EQ 6 , 1979 SS 7 , 1979 TG 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. |
(6606) Makino is an asteroid of the main belt , of October 16, 1990 by the Japanese astronomers Tsutomu Seki at Geisei Observatory ( IAU code was discovered 372).
The asteroid was named on December 24, 1996 after the Japanese botanist Makino Tomitarō (1862-1957), who first described over 1000 species in his six-volume work Makino's Book of Botany, published in 1936.
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Makino: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Makino in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6606) Makino in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).