Kitami Observatory

Kitami Observatory
Organization	Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art
Observatory code	400
Location	Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan
Coordinates	43°49′06″N 143°54′13″E / 43.8182°N 143.9037°E
Established	1987
Website	business4.plala.or.jp/bunsen21/
	Location of Kitami Observatory
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Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory code^[1] is 400.^[2] It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.^[3]

The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here.^[4] As of 2012^[update], 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.^[5]

Notes

^ Longitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')
^ MPC List of Observatory Codes found here, retrieved on March 20, 2007
^ Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory list retrieved on March 20, 2007
^ Minor Planet Discoverers
^ Minor Planet Discovery Sites, Minor Planet Center, November 2, 2012, retrieved 2012-11-18

External links

Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art Archived 2013-03-10 at the Wayback Machine official website (in Japanese)

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[1] Longitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi')

[2] MPC List of Observatory Codes found here, retrieved on March 20, 2007

[3] Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory list retrieved on March 20, 2007

[4] Minor Planet Discoverers

[5] Minor Planet Discovery Sites, Minor Planet Center, November 2, 2012, retrieved 2012-11-18

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