13956 Banks

Summary

13956 Banks is an asteroid^[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]

Key Facts

• 13956 Banks is credited with the discovery of Eric Walter Elst^[3].
• 13956 Banks's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 13956 Banks's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as La Silla Observatory^[5].
• Joseph Banks is named after 13956 Banks^[6].
• 13956 Banks's follows is recorded as (13955) 1990 UA2^[7].
• 13956 Banks's followed by is recorded as 13957 NARIT^[8].
• 13956 Banks's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 13956 Banks's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 13956 Banks's provisional designation is recorded as 1982 YC2^[11].
• 13956 Banks's provisional designation is recorded as 1990 VG6^[12].
• 13956 Banks's provisional designation is recorded as 1994 WO2^[13].
• 13956 Banks's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1990-11-15T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 13956 Banks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03y0xdm^[15].
• 13956 Banks's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20013956^[16].
• 13956 Banks's significant event is recorded as naming^[17].
• 13956 Banks's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.12'}^[18].
• 13956 Banks's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1176113'}^[19].
• 13956 Banks's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.1179749329877773'}^[20].
• 13956 Banks's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+13.3'}^[21].
• 13956 Banks's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+13.41'}^[22].
• 13956 Banks's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+8.09048'}^[23].
• 13956 Banks's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+8.100885307160643'}^[24].
• 13956 Banks's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q577', 'amount': '+4.02'}^[25].
• 13956 Banks's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1466.831610625258'}^[26].
• 13956 Banks's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q25235', 'amount': '+6.218'}^[27].

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Works and Contributions

13956 Banks is credited with the discovery of Eric Walter Elst^[3].

Why It Matters

13956 Banks has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[2]