46610 Besixdouze
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46610 Besixdouze is an asteroid
belonging to the asteroid belt
between Mars
and Jupiter
.
It was formally pinpointed by Kin Endate
and Kazuro Watanabe
on October 15, 1993.
The name was suggested by F. Hemery and Jiří Grygar
as a reference to the French novella The Little Prince
. The title character lived on an asteroid named B612, which is 46610 written in hexadecimal
notation.
Asteroid
Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...
belonging to the asteroid belt
Asteroid belt
The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located roughly between the orbits of the planets Mars and Jupiter. It is occupied by numerous irregularly shaped bodies called asteroids or minor planets...
between Mars
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
and Jupiter
Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with mass one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas giant along with Saturn,...
.
It was formally pinpointed by Kin Endate
Kin Endate
is a Japanese amateur astronomer who has discovered 600 asteroids , placing him among the most prolific discoverers of minor planets. His discoveries include the Trojan asteroid 1990 VU1 and the Mars-crossing asteroid 6500 Kodaira...
and Kazuro Watanabe
Kazuro Watanabe
is an amateur Japanese astronomer. He was born in Hokkaidō, Japan and is a member of the Astronomical Society of Japan and Oriental Astronomical Association....
on October 15, 1993.
The name was suggested by F. Hemery and Jiří Grygar
Jirí Grygar
Jiří Grygar is a Czech astronomer and popularizer of science. Dr. Grygar is a Kalinga Prize laureate...
as a reference to the French novella The Little Prince
The Little Prince
The Little Prince , first published in 1943, is a novella and the most famous work of the French aristocrat writer, poet and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ....
. The title character lived on an asteroid named B612, which is 46610 written in hexadecimal
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a positional numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen...
notation.
See also
- 2578 Saint-Exupéry2578 Saint-Exupéry2578 Saint-Exupéry is a small main belt asteroid, which was discovered by Tamara M. Smirnova on November 2, 1975. It is named after Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the French aviator and writer. The name is appropriate, as Saint-Exupéry's best-known character, The Little Prince, lives on an asteroid.In...
- 3336 Grygar3336 Grygar3336 Grygar is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 26, 1971 by Kohoutek, L. at Bergedorf.- External links :*...
- 4155 Watanabe4155 Watanabe4155 Watanabe is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 25, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...
- 4282 Endate4282 Endate4282 Endate is a main-belt asteroid discovered on October 28, 1987 by Seiji Ueda and Hiroshi Kaneda at Kushiro.- External links :*...
- Petit-Prince (moon)Petit-Prince (moon)Eugenia I Petit-Prince is the larger, outer moon of asteroid 45 Eugenia. It was discovered in 1998 by astronomers at the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. Initially, it received the provisional designation S/1998 1. Petit-Prince was the first asteroid moon to be discovered...