(6924) Fukui
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Asteroid (6924) Fukui |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main outer belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.3886 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.0991 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 3.0527 AU - 3.7244 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 12.2295 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 25.3013 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 288.9087 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | January 10, 2018 |
| Sidereal period | 6.24 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.17 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 29.616 (± 0.091) km |
| Albedo | 0.052 (± 0.006) |
| Absolute brightness | 11.7 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | October 8, 1993 |
| Another name | 1993 TP , 1981 UE 14 , 1981 WK 5 , 1987 SC 22 , 1991 GN 6 |
| 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. | |
(6924) Fukui is an asteroid of the main outer belt , which was discovered on October 8, 1993 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Kin Endate and Kazurō Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) on Hokkaidō .
The asteroid was named on August 8, 1998 after the Japanese chemist Fukui Ken'ichi (1918–1998), who together with Roald Hoffmann received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1981 for the theories about the course of chemical reactions developed by the two independently .
See also
Web links
- (6924) Fukui in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6924) Fukui in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances of (6924) Fukui according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)