160 Una
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
160 Una is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (79 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Litchfield Observatory[4]
- Named after: Una[5]
- Follows: 159 Aemilia[6]
- Followed by: 161 Athor[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 160 Una[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A876 DA[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: February 20, 1876[12]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06560940869889685[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.06[16]
- Orbital inclination: 3.824 degree[17], 3.818801379791282 degree[18]
- Mass: 560 petagram[19]
- Orbital period: 1645.451373428327 day[20]
- Rotation period: 11.033 hour[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 8.542238845682743 degree[22]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.727665330736112 astronomical unit[23]
- Apoapsis: 2.906625840214189 astronomical unit[24]
- Periapsis: 2.548704821258035 astronomical unit[25]
- Argument of periapsis: 50.12886991188535 degree[26]
- Mean anomaly: 171.185754668404 degree[27]
- Diameter: 81.24 km[28]
Why It Matters
160 Una has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 19 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]