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1248 Jugurtha

asteroid
Thing asteroid Q137295

Facts

28 properties
Instance of
asteroid
Follows
1247 Memoria[5]
Followed by
1249 Rutherfordia[6]
Absolute magnitude
9.9, 9.89[19][20]
Albedo
0.282
Apoapsis
2.767 astronomical unit, 2.759032585952256 astronomical unit
Argument of periapsis
345.84634 degree, 340.7325158487349 degree
Asteroid spectral type
S-type asteroid[14]
Diameter
28.468 km
Discoverer or inventor
Cyril V. Jackson[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02_v2
Longitude of ascending node
79.38109 degree, 79.21649134799455 degree
Mean anomaly
32.97074 degree, 204.9405236481375 degree
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Jugurtha[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.01 (0.01–0.02, n=3)[16][17][18]
Orbital inclination
9.13866 degree, 9.140332092972233 degree[21][22]
Orbital period
4.49 year, 1,640.442241318557 day[23][24]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.6769040 astronomical unit, 2.685220930409029 astronomical unit
Provisional designation
1930 DU, 1932 RO, A901 VE, A915 XB[9][10][11][12]
Rotation period
12.1889 hour
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.7219779 astronomical unit, 2.722126758180642 astronomical unit
Show all 28 facts +4
Significant event
naming[15]
Site of astronomical discovery
Union Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
September 1, 1932[13]
Time of periapsis
2,461,707.0725414567 Julian day
🏷️ Also known as
en Jugurtha de (1248) Jugurtha el 1248 Ιουγούρθη fa سیارک ۱۲۴۸ ru A901 VE ru A915 XB ru Югурта ru 1930 DU ru (1248) 1932 RO ru (1248) Югурта ru 1932 RO uk 1248 Югурта zh 小行星1248
🔖 Identifiers · 5
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
001248-asteroid shape model (1248) Jugurtha.png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
779
Freebase ID
/m/03y5666
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20001248
Minor Planet Center body ID
1248

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Summary

1248 Jugurtha is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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