1346 Gotha
asteroid
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Summary
1346 Gotha is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 32 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Heidelberg-Königstuhl State Observatory[4]
- Named after: Gotha[5]
- Follows: 1345 Potomac[6]
- Followed by: 1347 Patria[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1929 CY[10], 1931 RC1[11], 1948 PL1[12], 1952 OC[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: February 5, 1929[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.178579[16], 0.1782698[17], 0.1760639749654044[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.25[19], 11.37[20]
- Orbital inclination: 13.85087 degree[21], 13.86416349681669 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 4.26 years[23], 1555.77576484462 day[24]
- Rotation period: 2.64 hour[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 166.12706 degree[26], 165.9286761899927 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.6269518 astronomical unit[28], 2.627639106439776 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 3.095 astronomical unit[30], 3.090271692294107 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 2.1586458 astronomical unit[32], 2.165006520585446 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 249.97015 degree[34], 250.8083474847466 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 54.69821 degree[36], 341.5542053962976 degree[37]
- Diameter: 13.731 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.278[39]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[40]
- Time of periapsis: 2461080.21533391 Julian day[41]
Why It Matters
1346 Gotha is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]