12557 Caracol

Summary

12557 Caracol is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 12557 Caracol is credited with the discovery of Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search^[3].
• 12557 Caracol's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 12557 Caracol's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Anderson Mesa Station^[5].
• El Caracol, Chichen Itza is named after 12557 Caracol^[6].
• 12557 Caracol's follows is recorded as 12556 Kyrobinson^[7].
• 12557 Caracol's followed by is recorded as (12558) 1998 QV63^[8].
• 12557 Caracol's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 12557 Caracol's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 12557 Caracol's provisional designation is recorded as 1996 FL17^[11].
• 12557 Caracol's provisional designation is recorded as 1998 QQ54^[12].
• 12557 Caracol's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1998-08-27T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 12557 Caracol's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03qks2l^[14].
• 12557 Caracol's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20012557^[15].
• 12557 Caracol's significant event is recorded as naming^[16].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.00'}^[17].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0044795'}^[18].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.01053185179664478'}^[19].
• 12557 Caracol's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.8'}^[20].
• 12557 Caracol's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+12.95'}^[21].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.82352'}^[22].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.814929821676242'}^[23].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+5.61'}^[24].
• 12557 Caracol's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2049.373809499519'}^[25].
• 12557 Caracol's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+227.87995'}^[26].
• 12557 Caracol's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+227.6759126402086'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

12557 Caracol's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

History and Context

El Caracol, Chichen Itza is named after 12557 Caracol^[6].

Why It Matters

12557 Caracol ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]