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(224559) 2005 WU178

Summary

(224559) 2005 WU178 is an asteroid[1]. (224559) 2005 WU178 ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • (224559) 2005 WU178 is credited with the discovery of Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking[3].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's instance of is recorded as asteroid[4].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's instance of is recorded as minor planet[5].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Palomar Observatory[6].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt[7].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun[8].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's provisional designation is recorded as 2005 WU178[9].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-11-21T00:00:00Z[10].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20224559[11].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1493324335279614'}[12].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+16.86'}[13].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+17.7251457624402'}[14].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1531.00537759398'}[15].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+41.9136631058148'}[16].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.599673813263448'}[17].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.987889430176994'}[18].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.211458196349902'}[19].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+44.49399281970283'}[20].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+259.701980799194'}[21].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's diameter is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q828224', 'amount': '+1.795'}[22].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's albedo is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.138'}[23].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 224559[24].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's epoch is recorded as November 21, 2025[25].
  • (224559) 2005 WU178's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2461427.04668544'}[26].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid[4] and minor planet[5].

Why It Matters

(224559) 2005 WU178 ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).[2]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.

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