(8571) Taniguchi Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 20 October 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.

Yoshiaki Taniguchi (b. 1954) works mainly in extragalactic physics at Tohoku University. He promoted the first mid-infrared deep survey for dust-enshrouded young galaxies at high redshift using the Infrared Space Observatory and an optical deep survey for very-high-redshift galaxies using the Subaru Telescope.Naming citation (20050125/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Taniguchi is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Taniguchi is 2.74 au from the Sun and 3.31 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	8571
Provisional designation	1996 UX
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	6.15 km (#8,712 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.268
Rotation period	5.30 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.4
Orbital period	4.82 years
Semi-major axis	2.85 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.65 – 3.06 au
Eccentricity	0.0713
Inclination	0.990°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.67 au

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

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