7597 Shigemi

ASTEROIDMain-belt asteroid

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OVERVIEW

] ASTEROID

7597 Shigemi is a main-belt asteroid. Its absolute magnitude () is 12.96. It orbits the Sun at a mean distance of 2.932 . It is catalogued as 7597 Shigemi (1993 GM). It was discovered in 1993.

WHAT IT IS
Main-belt asteroid
HOW FAR
2.932

Its average distance from the Sun, not from Earth.

HOW BRIGHT IN ITSELF (H)

How bright it would look from a fixed, standard distance — a measure of the object rather than of the view from here.

ONE ORBIT TAKES
5.01

One trip round the Sun.

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OBSERVING

] FROM WHERE YOU ARE

What it takes to see 7597 Shigemi for yourself. Everything in this part of the page is worked out for a real horizon, a real night and the equipment you say you have.

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CATALOG DATA

] 14 FIELDS

The raw catalogue values, as the source published them, with the error bars where one was published — sorted by what each set of figures is about rather than by the order they happened to be stored in.

THE ORBIT

The shape of the path, where the object sits on it, and the instant those figures were true of. An orbit is a fit to observations and drifts away from the real one either side of its epoch.

Orbital period
5.01
Eccentricity
Inclination
3.21
Longitude of ascending node
125.46
Argument of perihelion
337.58
Mean anomaly
309.4
Element epoch
2461200.5000
Perihelion passage
2461458.2500
Minimum distance from Earth's orbit
1.75
Orbit class
MBA

WHEN IT WAS FOUND

Who first saw it, from where, and by what method.

Discovered by
Otomo, S.
Discovered from
Kiyosato
Discovered on
1993-04-14
First observed
1954-07-03
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ALSO KNOWN AS

] 3 DESIGNATIONS
  • Asteroid 7597
  • Asteroid 7597 Shigemi (1993 GM)
  • Common name Shigemi
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LOOK IT UP ELSEWHERE

] 1 SERVICE

Each link carries the identifier printed beside it. Nothing on this page is a measurement of our own, so a number that disagrees with one of these is worth reporting — and a service that has never catalogued this object under this name will say so plainly.

  • JPL Small-Body Database7597

    The orbit these elements were taken from, with its uncertainty, its close approaches and every observation behind the fit.

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CITE THIS PAGE

] DR1

This page is live and its numbers move when an upstream refreshes, so the citation names the release the rows belong to rather than the day you read them. The release itself is frozen, republished as a bundle, and is what a data-availability statement should point at.

PLAIN TEXT
SpaceCatalog. 7597 Shigemi [catalogue entry]. Data release DR1 (2026-08-21). https://spacecatalog.org/object/7597-shigemi
BIBTEX
@misc{spacecatalog_7597-shigemi,
  author       = {{SpaceCatalog}},
  title        = {{7597 Shigemi}},
  howpublished = {SpaceCatalog, data release DR1 (2026-08-21)},
  year         = {2026},
  url          = {https://spacecatalog.org/object/7597-shigemi},
  note         = {Catalogue entry, data release DR1 (2026-08-21). Values from JPL Small-Body Database.}
}

The values above were taken from JPL Small-Body Database — Public domain (NASA/JPL). Citing this page does not replace citing that catalogue.

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