(13567) Urabe Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 16 November 1992 by Endate, K., Watanabe, K. at Kitami.
Mamoru Urabe (b. 1960), a teacher of junior high school and an amateur astronomer, is a volunteer senior researcher at the Kamogawa Observatory in Chiba prefecture and has a private observatory in his home. His astronomical interests include comets, nebulae, star clusters and occultations by minor planets.Naming citation (20091202/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Urabe is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Urabe is 3.34 au from the Sun and 4.32 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 13567 |
| Provisional designation | 1992 WF1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 13.2 km (#3,661 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.212 |
| Rotation period | 5.96 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 12.02 |
| Orbital period | 5.27 years |
| Semi-major axis | 3.03 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.71 – 3.35 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.106 |
| Inclination | 11.1° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.73 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Mamoru
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Also discovered on 16 November 1992
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