(61189) Ohsadaharu Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 July 2000 by BATTeRS at Bisei SG Center.
Sadaharu Oh (b. 1940) is a world-renowned professional baseball player with the world lifetime home run record (868). He also won the World Baseball Classic Champion 2006 as manager of Team Japan.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2016-02-22), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ohsadaharu is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ohsadaharu is 2.21 au from the Sun and 1.22 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 61189 |
| Provisional designation | 2000 NE29 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.50 km (#13,967 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.228 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.47 |
| Orbital period | 3.68 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.38 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.10 – 2.67 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.119 |
| Inclination | 5.50° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.10 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.