Kitami Observatory

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|organization = Kitami Region Museum of Science History and Art

|code = 400

|location = Kitami, Hokkaidō, Japan

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Kitami Observatory is an astronomical observatory in the Kitami-Abashiri Region Cultural Centre in eastern Hokkaidō, Japan. Its observatory codeLongitude (in degrees east of Greenwich) and the parallax constants (rho sin phi' and rho cos phi') is 400.MPC List of Observatory Codes found [http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/lists/ObsCodes.html here], retrieved on March 20, 2007 It is 0.72344 Earth radii from the rotation axis and +0.68811 Earth radii from the equatorial plane, 143.7827 degrees east of Greenwich.Near-Earth Objects Dynamic Observatory [https://newton.spacedys.com/index.php?pc=2.1.0&o=400 list] retrieved on March 20, 2007

The amateur astronomers Atsushi Takahashi and Kazuro Watanabe discovered many asteroids here.[http://www.minorplanetcenter.org/iau/lists/MPDiscsNum.html Minor Planet Discoverers] {{As of|2012}}, 680 discoveries have been made at Kitami.{{citation|url=http://minorplanetcenter.net/iau/lists/MPDiscSites.html|publisher=Minor Planet Center|title=Minor Planet Discovery Sites|date=November 2, 2012|access-date=2012-11-18}}