(6883) Hiuchigatake Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 10 January 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
Mt. Hiuchigatake, 2346 m above sea level, stands to the west of Nikko National Park in Fukushima prefecture.Naming citation (20030106/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Hiuchigatake is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Hiuchigatake is 3.31 au from the Sun and 3.68 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 6883 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 AF |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.4 km (#3,590 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0820 |
| Rotation period | 5.51 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.1 |
| Orbital period | 5.53 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.13 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.56 – 3.70 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.183 |
| Inclination | 2.00° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.56 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.