(17502) Manabeseiji Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 March 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Seiji Manabe (b. 1947) was a project manager of the VLBI Exploration of Radio Astronomy, which led to the high-precision determination of trigonometric parallaxes for Galactic radio sources. He served as head of the Earth Rotation Division at the National Observatory of Japan and as director of Mizusawa Observatory.Naming citation (20091004/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Manabeseiji is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Manabeseiji is 2.01 au from the Sun and 3.00 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 17502 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 FD1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 2.98 km (#15,266 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.151 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 15.02 |
| Orbital period | 3.44 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.28 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.01 – 2.55 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 4.21° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.00 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Seiji
All asteroids named after someone called Seiji
Also discovered on 23 March 1992
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- (6274) Taizaburo
- (6330) Koen
- (6565) Reiji
- (6656) Yokota
- (6734) Benzenberg
- (6832) Kawabata
- (7293) Kazuyuki
- (7342) Uchinoura
- (7773) Kyokuchiken
- (9362) Miyajima
- (14436) Morishita