(6846) Kansazan
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Asteroid (6846) Kansazan |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Asteroid family | Hertha family |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3858 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.2246 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.8500 AU - 2.9217 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 2.8585 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 137.8407 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 228.6327 ° |
| Sidereal period | 3.69 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.28 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Absolute brightness | 14.3 mag |
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| Explorer |
Hiroki Kōsai Kiichirō Furukawa |
| Date of discovery | October 22, 1976 |
| Another name | 1976 UG 15 , 1976 WR, 1987 SJ 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. | |
(6846) Kansazan is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 22 October 1976 by the Japanese astronomer Hiroki Kosai and Kiichiro Furukawa at the Kiso Observatory ( IAU code 381) in Kiso at Mount Ontake was discovered.
The asteroid belongs to the Nysa group, a group of asteroids named after (44) Nysa (also called the Hertha family, after (135) Hertha ).
The celestial body was named on February 2, 1999 after the Kanshi poet and Confucian scholar Kan Chazan (1748-1827).
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ The family status of the asteroids in the AstDyS-2 database (English, HTML; 51.4 MB)
Web links
- Asteroid Kansazan: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- (6846) Kansazan in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory .
- (6846) Kansazan in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).