(8295) Toshifukushima Main-belt Asteroid

Discovered on 26 October 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.

Named in honor of Toshio Fukushima (b. 1954), a Japanese astronomer working mainly on general relativity, positional astronomy and celestial mechanics. He is current president of the IAU Commission 31 and served as chair of the local organizing committee for the IAU General Assembly in Kyoto in 1997. He created the current version of Japanese Ephemeris, published by the Japanese Hydrographic Department, and contributed to the introduction of general relativity into the current IAU system of time systems, reference frames and astronomical constants. He has been the director of the public relations center of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan since 1998.Naming citation (19990728/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL

Where Toshifukushima is today

Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Toshifukushima is 2.98 au from the Sun and 3.83 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.

Facts

Number	8295
Provisional designation	1992 UN4
Orbit class	Main-belt Asteroid
Diameter	6.38 km (#8,406 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size)
Albedo	0.360
Rotation period	2.89 hours
Absolute magnitude (H)	13.11
Orbital period	4.65 years
Semi-major axis	2.78 au
Perihelion – aphelion	2.34 – 3.23 au
Eccentricity	0.159
Inclination	10.3°
Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID)	1.36 au

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

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Also discovered on 26 October 1992

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