46595 Kita-Kyushu
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Summary
46595 Kita-Kyushu is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Tsutomu Seki[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Geisei observatory[4]
- Follows: (46594) 1992 YP3[5]
- Followed by: 46596 Tobata[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1992 YB4[9], 1997 EO59[10], 1999 XR167[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 29, 1992[12]
- Significant event: naming[13]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.20[14], 0.2048114975786294[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 15.6[16], 15.76[17]
- Orbital inclination: 2.9 degree[18], 2.907426488827998 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1302.969663019862 day[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 5.1 degree[21], 4.809049744009941 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.334661481794135 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 2.812826996219534 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 1.856495967368736 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 73.3 degree[26], 73.90966904918035 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 125.3 degree[28], 94.20945966228761 degree[29]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[30]
- Time of periapsis: 2460659.522033585 Julian day[31]
Why It Matters
46595 Kita-Kyushu is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]