(23896) Tatsuaki Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 17 September 1998 by LONEOS at Anderson Mesa.
Tatsuaki Hashimoto (b. 1963) works on spacecraft guidance and control at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Tokyo. He was engaged in the attitude and orbit control systems of spacecraft such as the Hayabusa sample return mission to asteroid Itokawa.Naming citation (20120506/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tatsuaki is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tatsuaki is 2.96 au from the Sun and 3.84 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 23896 |
| Provisional designation | 1998 SF59 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 7.11 km (#7,498 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.139 |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.86 |
| Orbital period | 5.14 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.98 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.87 – 3.09 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0364 |
| Inclination | 10.6° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.88 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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