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4387 Tanaka (4829 T-2) is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 19 1973 by Cornelis Johannes van Houten Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels at the Palomar Observatory. It is named for Japanese astrophysicist Yasuo Tanaka.

apoapsis (km)
3.70113e+11
orbital period (μ)
1.20145e+08
periapsis (km)
3.59374e+11
absolute magnitude
12.8
discovery date
1973-09-19
discoverer
Cornelis Johannes van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Tom Gehrels
epoch
May 14 2008
former name
4829 T-2

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