Tags: Asteroid.
13140 Shinchukai (provisional designation: 1994 VW2) is a main-belt minor planet. It was discovered by Kin Endate and Kazuro Watanabe at the Kitami Observatory in Hokkaidō Japan on November 4 1994. It is named after Shinchukai the alumni association of the high school in Shingū Wakayama Prefecture Japan.