Discovered 17 November 1927 Discoverer Okuro Oikawa Asteroid group Asteroid belt | Orbits Sun Asteroid family Flora family | |
Discovery site Tokyo Astronomical Observatory Similar Sun, 1089 Tama, 8 Flora | ||
1185 Nikko is a main-belt asteroid with an orbital period of 1,222.441 days (3.35 years).
The asteroid was discovered on November 17, 1927, by Japanese astronomer Okurō Oikawa at Tokyo Astronomical Observatory and is named after the Japanese city of Nikkō.
Photometric observations of this asteroid collected during 2004 show a rotation period of 3.79 ± 0.01 hours with a brightness variation of 0.34 ± 0.03 magnitude.
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