(7038) Tokorozawa Outer Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 22 February 1995 by Sato, N., Urata, T. at Chichibu.
Tokorozawa City is located in the south of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. The first airport in Japan was opened there in 1911.Naming citation (20110615/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Tokorozawa is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Tokorozawa is 3.20 au from the Sun and 2.99 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 7038 |
| Provisional designation | 1995 DJ2 |
| Orbit class | Outer Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 14.5 km (#3,270 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.0530 |
| Rotation period | 160 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 13.02 |
| Orbital period | 5.75 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.21 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.69 – 3.73 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.163 |
| Inclination | 0.525° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.70 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
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