138 Tolosa
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
138 Tolosa is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 46 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Toulouse Observatory[4]
- Named after: Toulouse[5]
- Follows: 137 Meliboea[6]
- Followed by: 139 Juewa[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 138 Tolosa[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A909 SB[11], A874 KA[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: May 19, 1874[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1618855793372204[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.02[17]
- Orbital inclination: 3.208 degree[18], 3.198844168807222 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 1401.689086388414 day[20]
- Rotation period: 10.101 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 54.68758092988096 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.451144098189412 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 2.847948980563814 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 2.05433921581501 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 261.1129824163847 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 142.2979101727429 degree[27]
- Diameter: 52.905 km[28]
- Albedo: 0.270[29], 0.273[30]
Why It Matters
138 Tolosa is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]