12447 Yatescup
asteroid
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Summary
12447 Yatescup is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (12 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Spacewatch[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Kitt Peak National Observatory[4]
- Named after: Yates Cup[5]
- Follows: 12446 Juliabryant[6]
- Followed by: 12448 Mr. Tompkins[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1979 SW1[10], 1985 JA1[11], 1996 XA12[12], 1998 NK[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: December 4, 1996[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.21[16], 0.2086917[17], 0.2084350641469868[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.2[19], 14.39[20]
- Orbital inclination: 5.40341 degree[21], 5.401013888730174 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 3.18 years[23], 1163.13786481352 day[24]
- Rotation period: 40.8 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 86.46570 degree[26], 86.43599115839099 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.1638981 astronomical unit[28], 2.164487978403419 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 2.615 astronomical unit[30], 2.615643169027318 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 1.7123105 astronomical unit[32], 1.713332787779521 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 192.75065 degree[34], 193.0553648687836 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 203.00292 degree[36], 225.7087950992349 degree[37]
- Diameter: 3.196 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.361[39]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[40]
- Time of periapsis: 2461434.386625921 Julian day[41]
Why It Matters
12447 Yatescup has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[42] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[43]