172 Baucis
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
172 Baucis is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (38 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Alphonse Borrelly[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Marseille Observatory[4]
- Named after: Baucis[5]
- Follows: 171 Ophelia[6]
- Followed by: 173 Ino[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 172 Baucis[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A921 EE[11], A877 CA[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: February 5, 1877[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[14], L-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1141327766057335[17]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[18]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.72[19]
- Orbital inclination: 10.04 degree[20], 10.01600190489201 degree[21]
- Orbital period: 1340.870984374988 day[22]
- Rotation period: 27.417 hour[23]
- Longitude of ascending node: 331.8891752958212 degree[24]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.379719179052357 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.651323136499519 astronomical unit[26]
- Periapsis: 2.108115221605195 astronomical unit[27]
- Argument of periapsis: 359.1986423615591 degree[28]
- Mean anomaly: 8.294040958425596 degree[29]
- Diameter: 62.43 km[30]
Why It Matters
172 Baucis has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[31] It is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[32]