121725 Aphidas

Summary

121725 Aphidas is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 121725 Aphidas is credited with the discovery of Carl W. Hergenrother^[3].
• 121725 Aphidas's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 121725 Aphidas's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory^[5].
• 121725 Aphidas's follows is recorded as (121724) 1999 XG141^[6].
• 121725 Aphidas's followed by is recorded as (121726) 1999 XU148^[7].
• 121725 Aphidas's minor planet group is recorded as centaur^[8].
• 121725 Aphidas's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[9].
• 121725 Aphidas's provisional designation is recorded as 1999 XX143^[10].
• 121725 Aphidas's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1999-12-13T00:00:00Z^[11].
• 121725 Aphidas's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20121725^[12].
• 121725 Aphidas's significant event is recorded as naming^[13].
• 121725 Aphidas's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.459'}^[14].
• 121725 Aphidas's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4618533773141413'}^[15].
• 121725 Aphidas's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.6'}^[16].
• 121725 Aphidas's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.88'}^[17].
• 121725 Aphidas's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.769'}^[18].
• 121725 Aphidas's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.769095152016464'}^[19].
• 121725 Aphidas's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+27768.75539306731'}^[20].
• 121725 Aphidas's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+103.76'}^[21].
• 121725 Aphidas's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+103.6811941480791'}^[22].
• 121725 Aphidas's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+17.94617886916189'}^[23].
• 121725 Aphidas's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+26.23468218976798'}^[24].
• 121725 Aphidas's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+9.657675548555792'}^[25].
• 121725 Aphidas's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+215.74'}^[26].
• 121725 Aphidas's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+216.0189135356714'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

121725 Aphidas's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

121725 Aphidas ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]