176 Iduna

Summary

176 Iduna is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 176 Iduna is credited with the discovery of Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters^[3].
• 176 Iduna's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 176 Iduna's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Litchfield Observatory^[5].
• Iðunn is named after 176 Iduna^[6].
• 176 Iduna's follows is recorded as 175 Andromache^[7].
• 176 Iduna's followed by is recorded as Q214387^[8].
• 176 Iduna's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 176 Iduna's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Iduna symbol (fixed width).svg^[10].
• 176 Iduna's Commons category is recorded as 176 Iduna^[11].
• 176 Iduna's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 176 Iduna's provisional designation is recorded as 1945 RQ^[13].
• 176 Iduna's provisional designation is recorded as A877 TB^[14].
• 176 Iduna's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1877-10-14T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 176 Iduna's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/039qn6^[16].
• 176 Iduna's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000176^[17].
• 176 Iduna's asteroid spectral type is recorded as G-type asteroid^[18].
• 176 Iduna's asteroid spectral type is recorded as C-type asteroid^[19].
• 176 Iduna's significant event is recorded as naming^[20].
• 176 Iduna's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1722467569371105'}^[21].
• 176 Iduna's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[22].
• 176 Iduna's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.44'}^[23].
• 176 Iduna's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+22.54'}^[24].
• 176 Iduna's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+22.67612768732267'}^[25].
• 176 Iduna's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2071.515748900403'}^[26].
• 176 Iduna's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+11.2877'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

176 Iduna's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

History and Context

Iðunn is named after 176 Iduna^[6].

Why It Matters

176 Iduna ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (10 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]