10 Hygiea
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
10 Hygiea is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 0.19% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,871 views/month, #8 of 4,107).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Annibale de Gasparis[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Astronomical Observatory of Capodimonte[4]
- Named after: Hygieia[5]
- Follows: 9 Metis[6]
- Followed by: 11 Parthenope[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Page(s): 16-16[9]
- Commons category: 10 Hygiea[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Unicode character: ⯚[12]
- Provisional designation: A900 GA[13], 1900 GA[14], A849 GA[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 12, 1849[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1082238330841652[19]
- Flattening: 0.06[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 5.65[21]
- Title: (10) Hygiea[22]
- Orbital inclination: 3.842 degree[23], 3.832937411259753 degree[24]
- Density: 2.56 gram per cubic centimetre[25]
- Mass: 903 exagram[26]
- Orbital period: 2039.698321691231 day[27]
- Rotation period: 27.623 hour[28], 13.828 hour[29]
- Longitude of ascending node: 283.1216602809548 degree[30]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.147591335335692 astronomical unit[31]
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for 10 Hygiea include Hygiea family[32], an asteroid family[33].
Why It Matters
10 Hygiea has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[34] It is known by 34 alternative names across languages and contexts.[35]
Entities named for it include Hygiea family[32], an asteroid family[33].