1130 Skuld
asteroid
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Summary
1130 Skuld is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 38 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Skuld[5]
- Follows: 1129 Neujmina[6]
- Followed by: 1131 Porzia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1130 Skuld[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1928 FJ[11], 1929 RC[12], 1949 UD[13], 1962 LA[14], A906 VC[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 2, 1929[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.20[18], 0.1980636[19], 0.1978354487022947[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.0[21], 12.02[22]
- Orbital inclination: 2.16785 degree[23], 2.16940797746291 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 3.33 years[25], 1215.306577402783 day[26]
- Rotation period: 4.81 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 216.13117 degree[28], 216.0870351612277 degree[29]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.2287421 astronomical unit[30], 2.228734218559539 astronomical unit[31]
- Apoapsis: 2.670 astronomical unit[32], 2.669656852726424 astronomical unit[33]
- Periapsis: 1.7873094 astronomical unit[34], 1.787811584392655 astronomical unit[35]
- Argument of periapsis: 113.77001 degree[36], 113.6907220500288 degree[37]
- Mean anomaly: 232.65590 degree[38], 342.1536911339899 degree[39]
- Diameter: 10.125 km[40]
- Albedo: 0.302[41]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[42]
Why It Matters
1130 Skuld is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]