(8416) Okada Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 3 November 1996 by Ueda, S., Kaneda, H. at Kushiro.
Yoshiyuki Okada (b. 1947), a member of Shirakawa Observatory in Japan and Chiro Observatory in Australia, is a talented amateur who played an important role in developing large portable telescopes, including the 0.84-m Chiro Telescope. These telescopes went on nationwide tours to show the beauty of the starry sky.Naming citation (20010109/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Okada is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Okada is 2.37 au from the Sun and 3.27 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8416 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 VB8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.20 km (#12,272 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.252 |
| Rotation period | 2.64 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.08 |
| Orbital period | 3.16 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.15 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 1.73 – 2.57 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.195 |
| Inclination | 3.32° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 0.720 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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