(6665) Kagawa
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Asteroid (6665) Kagawa |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Eos family |
| Major semi-axis | 3.0077 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0746 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.7832 AU - 3.2321 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.4285 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.22 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 17.18 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 12 km |
| Absolute brightness | 12.2 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer | Takeshi Urata |
| Date of discovery | February 14, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 CN, 1952 HF 1 , 1956 AN, 1982 BE, 1990 RM 12 |
| 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. | |
(6665) Kagawa is an asteroid of the main belt of 14 February 1993 by Takeshi Urata at Nihondaira Observatory ( observatory code 385) in Shizuoka Prefecture was discovered.
The asteroid was named on January 6, 2003 after the Japanese amateur astronomer Tetsuo Kagawa (* 1969).
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Kagawa: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Kagawa in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (6665) Kagawa in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).