(13640) Ohtateruaki Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 12 April 1996 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Teruaki Ohta (b. 1962) is a Japanese amateur astronomer and director of the Astronomical Society of Oita. His current main interests are comets, meteors, planetary occultations, lunar eclipses and solar eclipses. He also enjoys touring domestic and overseas astronomical observatories.Naming citation (20100726/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Ohtateruaki is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Ohtateruaki is 2.71 au from the Sun and 3.45 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13640 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 GV1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.42 km (#11,801 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.395 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.66 |
| Orbital period | 4.28 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.64 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.33 – 2.95 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.117 |
| Inclination | 13.2° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.38 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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