(6979) Shigefumi

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Asteroid
(6979) Shigefumi
Properties of the orbit ( animation )
Epoch:  4th September 2017 ( JD 2,458,000.5)
Orbit type Main belt asteroid
Major semi-axis 2.6535  AU
eccentricity 0.2230
Perihelion - aphelion 2.0618 AU - 3.2451 AU
Inclination of the orbit plane 14.9003 °
Length of the ascending node 359.2746 °
Argument of the periapsis 338.9542 °
Time of passage of the perihelion June 28, 2019
Sidereal period 4.32 a
Mean orbital velocity 18.28 km / s
Physical Properties
Medium diameter 8.232 (± 0.098) km
Albedo 0.253 (± 0.027)
Absolute brightness 12.4 mag
history
Explorer Kin Endate
Kazurō Watanabe
Date of discovery September 12, 1993
Another name 1993 RH
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(6979) Shigefumi is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 12 September 1993 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 Shigefumi Mori (* 1951), who was awarded the Fields Medal in 1990, among other things for proving the Hartshorne conjecture.

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