(7251) Kuwabara Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 30 September 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Named in honor of Syoji Kuwabara (b. 1927). A retired school teacher in Japan, he was superintendent of the board of education in Himeji City (1981-1993) and director of the city's Science Museum (1993-1996). An amateur astronomer, he was once an enthusiastic observer of occultations; now he studies local names and legends of stars and asterisms. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by T. Sato, A. Fujii and K. Kitao.Naming citation (19981208/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Kuwabara is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Kuwabara is 2.39 au from the Sun and 2.90 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7251 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 SF13 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.77 km (#11,058 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.309 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.95 |
| Orbital period | 4.10 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.56 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.36 – 2.76 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0796 |
| Inclination | 3.63° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.