170 Maria
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
170 Maria is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (397 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Henri Joseph Anastase Perrotin[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Toulouse Observatory[4]
- Named after: Maria Abetti[5]
- Follows: 169 Zelia[6]
- Followed by: 171 Ophelia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 170 Maria[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1958 AC[11], A877 AA[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: January 10, 1877[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14]
- Significant event: naming[15]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06137589180808733[16]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.33[17]
- Orbital inclination: 14.36223255835443 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 1491.328232041943 day[19]
- Rotation period: 13.12 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 301.1804135957114 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.554562553702127 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 2.711351108615141 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 2.397773998789114 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 158.8135884718255 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 189.6633069197703 degree[26]
- Diameter: 33.136 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.158[28], 0.282[29]
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for 170 Maria include Maria family[30], an asteroid family[31].
Why It Matters
170 Maria has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 24 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]
Entities named for it include Maria family[30], an asteroid family[31].