(6606) Makino

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Asteroid
(6606) Makino
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  December 9, 2014 ( JD 2,457,000.5)
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
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(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.

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