(19313) Shibatakazunari Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 6 November 1996 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Kazunari Shibata (b. 1954) is a professor at Kyoto University, and has served as director of Kwasan and Hida Observatories for 15 years. He has contributed to the understanding of the basic magnetohydrodynamic mechanism of jets and flares on the Sun, stars, accretion disks, and active galactic nuclei.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2020-08-07), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Shibatakazunari is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Shibatakazunari is 2.28 au from the Sun and 2.52 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 19313 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 VF8 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.85 km (#10,918 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.227 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.72 |
| Orbital period | 4.20 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.60 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.19 – 3.02 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.159 |
| Inclination | 13.7° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.21 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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