|
Discovery and designation
|
||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Discovered by | J. Kobayashi | |||||||||
| Discovery date | November 6, 1997 | |||||||||
|
Designations
|
||||||||||
| Alternate name(s) | 1997 VX5, 1980 PE4, 1988 NH1, 1995 EB9 | |||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | ||||||||||
| Ap | 2.6733878 AU | |||||||||
| Peri | 2.399785 AU | |||||||||
| Semi-major axis | 2.5365864 AU | |||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.0539313 | |||||||||
| Orbital period | 1475.6145473 d | |||||||||
| Mean anomaly | 256.34159° | |||||||||
| Inclination | 10.68525° | |||||||||
| Longitude of ascending node | 166.56594° | |||||||||
| Argument of peri | 158.79023° | |||||||||
| Surface temp. Kelvin Celsius |
|
|||||||||
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.1 | |||||||||
9993 Kumamoto is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 4.04 years.[1]
Discovered by J. Kobayashi on November 6, 1997 it was given the provisional designation 1997 VX5. It was later renamed Kumamoto in honour of Kumamoto, the home city of the asteroid's discoverer.[2]
|
|||||
|
||||||||||||||||||||||