(6964) Kunihiko
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Asteroid (6964) Kunihiko |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 2.3646 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1759 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 1.9487 AU - 2.7806 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 5.4285 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 192.5444 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 180.6502 ° |
| Time of passage of the perihelion | February 12, 2016 |
| Sidereal period | 3.64 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 19.37 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | 4.739 (± 0.175) km |
| Albedo | 0.286 (± 0.038) |
| Absolute brightness | 13.8 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Kin Endate Kazurō Watanabe |
| Date of discovery | October 15, 1990 |
| Another name | 1990 TL 1 , 1976 UT, 1979 SU 7 , 1979 TM 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. | |
(6964) Kunihiko is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 15 October 1990 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Kin EnDate and Kazuro Watanabe at Kitami Observatory ( IAU code 400) on Hokkaido was discovered.
The asteroid was named on August 8, 1998 after the Japanese mathematician Kodaira Kunihiko (1915–1997), who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1954 for outstanding services to mathematics .
See also
Web links
- (6964) Kunihiko in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).
- (6964) Kunihiko in the Small-Body Database of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (English).
- Discovery Circumstances by (6964) Kunihiko according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts (English)