(8204) Takabatake Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 8 April 1994 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Named in honor of Tohru Takabatake (b. 1957), a junior-high-school teacher and secretary of the Okayama Astronomical Society. A gifted speaker, he delights in explaining cosmic mysteries to his students, accompanying his talks with photographs of celestial objects. His main interests are comets and solar eclipse observation. Name proposed by the discoverers following a suggestion by Y. Yamada.Naming citation (19990728/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Takabatake is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Takabatake is 2.78 au from the Sun and 3.77 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 8204 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 GC1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.6 km (#3,503 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0680 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.06 |
| Orbital period | 5.46 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.10 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.77 – 3.44 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.108 |
| Inclination | 2.41° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.78 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also discovered on 8 April 1994
- (6742) Biandepei
- (6743) Liu
- (10569) Kinoshitamasao
- (10570) Shibayasuo
- (15805) Murakamitakehiko
- (30944) Hiruma