(9655) Yaburanger Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 11 February 1996 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
Yaburanger is a nickname for Japanese amateur castle researchers in Ibaraki and Chiba prefectures. ‘Yabu’ means bush in Japanese. The Yaburangers explore castles from the Middle Ages, and they wrote the book Castles in Ibaraki.Naming citation (MPC batch dated 2015-12-25), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Yaburanger is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Yaburanger is 2.52 au from the Sun and 2.70 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 9655 |
| Provisional designation | 1996 CH1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.38 km (#14,270 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.388 |
| Rotation period | 6.68 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.13 |
| Orbital period | 3.64 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.37 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.20 – 2.53 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.0696 |
| Inclination | 4.97° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.22 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.