9964 Hideyonoguchi
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| Discovery | |||||||||||||
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| Discovered by | T. Seki | ||||||||||||
| Discovery date | February 13, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| Designations | |||||||||||||
| MPC designation | 9964 Hideyonoguchi | ||||||||||||
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Named after
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Hideyo Noguchi | ||||||||||||
| 1992 CF1, 1982 VM6, 1996 KP1 | |||||||||||||
| Orbital characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Epoch October 27, 2007 | |||||||||||||
| Aphelion | 2.8401838 AU | ||||||||||||
| Perihelion | 2.1000752 AU | ||||||||||||
| 2.4701295 AU | |||||||||||||
| Eccentricity | 0.1498117 | ||||||||||||
| 1418.0058222 d | |||||||||||||
| 272.31949° | |||||||||||||
| Inclination | 6.2183 ° | ||||||||||||
| 356.54516° | |||||||||||||
| 271.36656° | |||||||||||||
| Physical characteristics | |||||||||||||
| Dimensions | ~25.7 km[1] | ||||||||||||
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| 13.4 | |||||||||||||
9964 Hideyonoguchi is a main belt asteroid. It orbits the Sun once every 3.88 years.[2]
Discovered on February 13, 1992 by T. Seki, it was given the provisional designation "1992 CF1". It was later renamed "Hideyonoguchi" after Hideyo Noguchi, a bacteriologist who made important advances in medicine working at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research.[3]
