1356 Nyanza
asteroid
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Summary
1356 Nyanza is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Cyril V. Jackson[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Union Observatory[4]
- Named after: Nyanza Province[5]
- Follows: 1355 Magoeba[6]
- Followed by: 1357 Khama[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 1356 Nyanza[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1929 EL[11], 1929 JH[12], 1929 JJ[13], 1931 TB3[14], 1935 JH[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 3, 1935[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.045601[18], 0.0502762[19], 0.05509924905672015[20]
- Absolute magnitude: 10.2[21], 10.28[22]
- Orbital inclination: 7.94608 degree[23], 7.944852285966101 degree[24]
- Orbital period: 5.42 years[25], 1975.850718355474 day[26]
- Rotation period: 12.422 hour[27]
- Longitude of ascending node: 69.62304 degree[28], 69.54261839660718 degree[29]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.0837173 astronomical unit[30], 3.081558865202888 astronomical unit[31]
- Apoapsis: 3.239 astronomical unit[32], 3.251350444599646 astronomical unit[33]
- Periapsis: 2.9286797 astronomical unit[34], 2.91176728580613 astronomical unit[35]
- Argument of periapsis: 302.02344 degree[36], 299.2771175444487 degree[37]
- Mean anomaly: 57.44729 degree[38], 137.026927411295 degree[39]
- Diameter: 60.895 km[40]
- Albedo: 0.052[41]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[42]
Why It Matters
1356 Nyanza has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]