(35231) Sugimotojunya Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 4 April 1995 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Junya Sugimoto (b. 1983) is the deputy director of enrollment management at Tokyo Future University. He has been interested in cosmology, deep space, and supernovae since he was a teenager. Junya also directs the university's astronomy club.Naming citation (WGSBN Bull. 5, #20, 6), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Sugimotojunya is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Sugimotojunya is 2.14 au from the Sun and 3.07 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 35231 |
| Provisional designation | 1995 GH7 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 4.24 km (#12,181 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.297 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.04 |
| Orbital period | 3.92 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.49 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.14 – 2.83 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.137 |
| Inclination | 7.66° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.15 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.