(7802) Takiguchi Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 2 December 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.

Setsuo Takiguchi (1924-1998) played the leading role in founding the Hiroshima Children's Museum in 1980 and served as its director until 1982. Further, as a dramatist, he greatly contributed to the production of the museum's planetarium shows until 1996.Naming citation (20030806/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Takiguchi is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Takiguchi is 2.01 au from the Sun and 1.01 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	7802
Provisional designation	1996 XG1
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	9.29 km (#5,553 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.0480
Absolute magnitude (H)	14.34
Orbital period	3.79 years
Semi-major axis	2.43 au
Perihelion – aphelion	1.97 – 2.89 au
Eccentricity	0.188
Inclination	2.20°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	0.968 au

Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.

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