(8866) Tanegashima
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Asteroid (8866) Tanegashima |
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| Properties of the orbit ( animation ) | |
| Orbit type | Main belt asteroid |
| Major semi-axis | 3.1136 AU |
| eccentricity | 0.1724 |
| Perihelion - aphelion | 2.5767 AU - 3.6505 AU |
| Inclination of the orbit plane | 11.6418 ° |
| Length of the ascending node | 316.7605 ° |
| Argument of the periapsis | 109.5989 ° |
| Sidereal period | 5.49 a |
| Mean orbital velocity | 16.87 km / s |
| Physical Properties | |
| Medium diameter | approx. 22 km |
| Rotation period | 13.525 h |
| Absolute brightness | 12.0 mag |
| history | |
| Explorer |
Masaru Mukai Masanori Takeishi |
| Date of discovery | January 26, 1992 |
| Another name | 1992 BR , 1931 AM, 1953 AB, 1996 BU 17 , 1998 FS 100 |
| 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. | |
(8866) Tanegashima is an asteroid of the main belt , which on 26 January 1992 by the Japanese amateur astronomers Masaru Mukai and Masanori Takeishi at the observatory in Kagoshima was discovered.
It was named on February 2, 1999 after the island of Tanegashima , which belongs to the Ōsumi Islands . In the southeast of the island there is a Japanese spaceport , the Tanegashima Space Center , which was the seat of the National Space Development Agency until it was absorbed by JAXA on October 1, 2003 .
See also
Web links
- Asteroid Tanegashima: Discovery Circumstances according to the Minor Planet Center of the International Astronomical Union at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, USA
- Asteroid Tanegashima in the Small-Body Database of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
- (8866) Tanegashima in the database of the "Asteroids - Dynamic Site" (AstDyS-2, English).