12042 Laques

Summary

12042 Laques is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 12042 Laques is credited with the discovery of Christian Buil^[3].
• 12042 Laques's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 12042 Laques's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Ramonville-Saint-Agne^[5].
• 12042 Laques's follows is recorded as (12041) 1997 EQ25^[6].
• 12042 Laques's followed by is recorded as (12043) 1997 FN^[7].
• 12042 Laques's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[8].
• 12042 Laques's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 12042 Laques's provisional designation is recorded as 1996 AS3^[10].
• 12042 Laques's provisional designation is recorded as 1997 FC^[11].
• 12042 Laques's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1997-03-17T00:00:00Z^[12].
• 12042 Laques's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y718y^[13].
• 12042 Laques's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20012042^[14].
• 12042 Laques's significant event is recorded as naming^[15].
• 12042 Laques's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.06'}^[16].
• 12042 Laques's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0635391'}^[17].
• 12042 Laques's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.06342909498837669'}^[18].
• 12042 Laques's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.1'}^[19].
• 12042 Laques's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.29'}^[20].
• 12042 Laques's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.84909'}^[21].
• 12042 Laques's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.86183555889727'}^[22].
• 12042 Laques's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+5.18'}^[23].
• 12042 Laques's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1892.373457038318'}^[24].
• 12042 Laques's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+128.90796'}^[25].
• 12042 Laques's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+128.7935886850165'}^[26].
• 12042 Laques's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.9952369'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

12042 Laques's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

12042 Laques ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 10 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]