2159 Kukkamäki
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Discovered by | L. Oterma[1] | ||||||||||||
Discovery date | 16 October 1941[1] | ||||||||||||
Designations | |||||||||||||
Named after | T. J. Kukkamäki | ||||||||||||
Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
Aphelion | 2.5823828[1] | ||||||||||||
Perihelion | 2.3802708[1] | ||||||||||||
2.4813268[1] | |||||||||||||
Eccentricity | 0.0407266[1] | ||||||||||||
3.91 y[1] | |||||||||||||
Inclination | 3.27328[1] | ||||||||||||
351.28376[1] | |||||||||||||
Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
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12.07[1] | |||||||||||||
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2159 Kukkamäki is an asteroid named after Finnish geodesist Tauno Johannes Kukkamäki (1909–1997).[2]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 JPL Small-Body Database Browser on 2159 Kukkamäki
- ↑ "New Names of Minor Planets", Minor Planet Circular (Cambridge, Mass: Minor Planet Center) (MPC 5014), 1 Nov 1979, ISSN 0736-6884
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