1045 Michela
asteroid
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Summary
1045 Michela is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (18 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: George Van Biesbroeck[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Yerkes Observatory[4]
- Follows: 1044 Teutonia[5]
- Followed by: 1046 Edwin[6]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[7]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[8]
- Provisional designation: 1924 TR[9], 1953 VB2[10], 1964 XJ[11], 1976 AL[12], A924 WN[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 19, 1924[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.16[17], 0.1598700[18], 0.1583137975179223[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 13.0[20], 13.04[21]
- Orbital inclination: 0.26480 degree[22], 0.2638835374812573 degree[23]
- Orbital period: 3.62 years[24], 1323.157482294625 day[25]
- Rotation period: 2.701 hour[26]
- Longitude of ascending node: 267.68067 degree[27], 267.1463024356105 degree[28]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.3584749 astronomical unit[29], 2.358714662530806 astronomical unit[30]
- Apoapsis: 2.736 astronomical unit[31], 2.732131738017262 astronomical unit[32]
- Periapsis: 1.9814256 astronomical unit[33], 1.985297587044349 astronomical unit[34]
- Argument of periapsis: 166.91359 degree[35], 167.5143058310496 degree[36]
- Mean anomaly: 8.90113 degree[37], 301.6894445921955 degree[38]
- Diameter: 6.104 km[39]
- Albedo: 0.328[40]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[41]
- Time of periapsis: 2461214.816799124 Julian day[42]
Why It Matters
1045 Michela has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]