1170 Siva
asteroid
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Summary
1170 Siva is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (42 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Eugène Joseph Delporte[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Royal Observatory of Belgium[4]
- Named after: Shiva[5]
- Follows: 1169 Alwine[6]
- Followed by: 1171 Rusthawelia[7]
- Minor planet group: Mars-crossing asteroid[8], asteroid belt[9]
- Commons category: 1170 Siva[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Provisional designation: 1930 SQ[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 29, 1930[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.30[16], 0.3007989[17], 0.3010225663494245[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.43[19], 12.36[20]
- Orbital inclination: 22.16552 degree[21], 22.16130302125924 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 3.55 years[23], 1295.637642762299 day[24]
- Rotation period: 3.13637 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 0.87601 degree[26], 0.8280043289922925 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.3257666 astronomical unit[28], 2.325894902833451 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 3.025 astronomical unit[30], 3.026041755543421 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 1.6261785 astronomical unit[32], 1.62574805012348 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 59.49624 degree[34], 59.46173980009644 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 205.69711 degree[36], 264.0665441022605 degree[37]
- Diameter: 10.37 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.1751[39]
Why It Matters
1170 Siva has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[40] It is known by 15 alternative names across languages and contexts.[41]