(8726) Masamotonasu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 14 November 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
Masamoto Nasu (b. 1942) is president of the Japanese Association of Writers for Children. He has published about 200 books, mostly of stories for children, and many of them became television dramas and animated cartoons. Nasu received many prizes for literature.Naming citation (20070926/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Masamotonasu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Masamotonasu is 3.25 au from the Sun and 4.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8726 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 VP5 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 14.8 km (#3,187 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0880 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.74 |
| Orbital period | 5.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.17 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.91 – 3.42 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0808 |
| Inclination | 8.70° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.93 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 14 November 1996
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