149 Medusa

Summary

149 Medusa is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 149 Medusa is credited with the discovery of Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin^[3].
• 149 Medusa's image is recorded as 149Medusa (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 149 Medusa's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 149 Medusa's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Toulouse Observatory^[6].
• Medusa is named after 149 Medusa^[7].
• 149 Medusa's follows is recorded as 148 Gallia^[8].
• 149 Medusa's followed by is recorded as Q140120^[9].
• 149 Medusa's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 149 Medusa's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Medusa symbol (fixed width).svg^[11].
• 149 Medusa's Commons category is recorded as 149 Medusa^[12].
• 149 Medusa's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[13].
• 149 Medusa's provisional designation is recorded as A905 BA^[14].
• 149 Medusa's provisional designation is recorded as A906 HB^[15].
• 149 Medusa's provisional designation is recorded as A875 SA^[16].
• 149 Medusa's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1875-09-21T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 149 Medusa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/037pg6^[18].
• 149 Medusa's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000149^[19].
• 149 Medusa's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[20].
• 149 Medusa's significant event is recorded as naming^[21].
• 149 Medusa's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.06491221652877062'}^[22].
• 149 Medusa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.79'}^[23].
• 149 Medusa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.53'}^[24].
• 149 Medusa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.937'}^[25].
• 149 Medusa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+0.9401708682094777'}^[26].
• 149 Medusa's mass is recorded as {'unit': 'Q2612219', 'amount': '+8.0'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

149 Medusa's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Medusa is named after 149 Medusa^[7].

Why It Matters

149 Medusa ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]