(5909) Nagoya Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 23 October 1989 by Mizuno, Y., Furuta, T. at Kani.
Named for Japan's fourth largest city, where the first discoverer was born and raised. From the time of the Tokugawa period, when the first shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu built a castle in this region, Nagoya has been an important area for land and sea travel, connecting Tokyo with Kyoto and Osaka. It is blessed with a rich cultural history and many cultural attractions, such as Nagoya Castle and the Tokugawa Art Museum, which displays artifacts of the Samurai warrior.Naming citation (19981208/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Nagoya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Nagoya is 1.81 au from the Sun and 0.891 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 5909 |
| Provisional designation | 1989 UT |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Rotation period | 3.78 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.8 |
| Orbital period | 3.36 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.24 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.81 – 2.68 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.194 |
| Inclination | 7.14° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.814 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 23 October 1989
- (4802) Khatchaturian
- (4840) Otaynang
- (4972) Pachelbel
- (5478) Wartburg
- (5820) Babelsberg
- (8158) Herder
- (13034) Nobuowatanabe
- (37573) Enricocaruso
- (48434) Maxbeckmann
- (48435) Jaspers
- (58163) Minnesang
- (100019) Gregorianik
More named asteroids discovered by Mizuno, Y., Furuta, T.
- (4265) Kani
- (4351) Nobuhisa
- (4353) Onizaki
- (4614) Masamura
- (4717) Kaneko
- (4799) Hirasawa
- (4903) Ichikawa
- (4904) Makio
- (4951) Iwamoto
- (5236) Yoko
- (5287) Heishu
- (5288) Nankichi
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