46610 Besixdouze
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Discovery and designation
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| Discovered by | Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe |
| Discovery site | Kitami |
| Discovery date | October 15, 1993 |
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Designations
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| Minor planet category |
Main belt |
| Epoch July 23, 2010 | |
| Aphelion | 2.6812984 AU |
| Perihelion | 1.8593602 AU |
| Semi-major axis | 2.2703293 AU |
| Eccentricity | 0.1810174 |
| Orbital period | 1249.486 days |
| Mean anomaly | 326.18968° |
| Inclination | 2.40223° |
| Longitude of ascending node | 172.16889° |
| Argument of perihelion | 211.68772° |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.5 |
46610 Besixdouze (1993 TQ1) is an asteroid belonging to the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
It was formally pinpointed by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe on October 15, 1993.[1]
The name was suggested by F. Hemery and Jiří Grygar as a reference to the French novella The Little Prince. The title character lived on an asteroid named B612, which is 46610 written in hexadecimal notation.
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[edit] References
- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. "Dictionary of Minor Planet Names", p. 895
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