Kitami Observatory

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Kitami Observatory is an observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaido, Japan. It's observatory code [1] is 401 139.4208 0.8088 +0.5861.[2] It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.[3]

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  1. ^ Longitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')
  2. ^ CFA at Harvard List of Observatory Codes found here, retrieved on March 20, 2007
  3. ^ Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory list retrieved on March 20, 2007