(17520) Hisayukiyoshio Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 January 1993 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Yoshio Hisayuki (b. 1942) founded the Ube astronomy club in Ube City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan in 1968. He was the president of the club during 1968--1974 and again from 2006 to the present. Since 2006, he has served also as the director of the Ube Municipal Planetarium.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-04-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hisayukiyoshio is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hisayukiyoshio is 2.14 au from the Sun and 2.63 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17520 |
| Provisional designation | 1993 BX2 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 12.1 km (#4,040 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0810 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.58 |
| Orbital period | 4.21 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.61 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.13 – 3.08 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.182 |
| Inclination | 12.5° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Yoshio
All asteroids named after someone called Yoshio
Also discovered on 23 January 1993
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- (6871) Verlaine
- (7430) Kogure
- (9615) Hemerijckx
- (11928) Akimotohiro
- (11929) Uchino
- (13097) Lamoraal
- (23524) Yuichitsuda
- (27789) Astrakhan
- (58221) Boston
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- (4042) Okhotsk
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- (4460) Bihoro
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- (4497) Taguchi
- (4508) Takatsuki
- (4547) Massachusetts
- (4585) Ainonai
- (4607) Seilandfarm
- (4641) Ayako
- (4712) Iwaizumi
- (4773) Hayakawa
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