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179 Klytaemnestra

main-belt asteroid
Thing asteroid Q468818
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Summary

179 Klytaemnestra is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 44 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]

Key Facts

  • Discoverer or inventor: James Craig Watson[3]
  • Site of astronomical discovery: Detroit Observatory[4]
  • Named after: Clytemnestra[5]
  • Follows: 178 Belisana[6]
  • Followed by: 180 Garumna[7]
  • Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
  • Commons category: 179 Klytaemnestra[9]
  • Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
  • Provisional designation: A877 VC[11]
  • Time of discovery or invention: November 11, 1877[12]
  • Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[13]
  • Significant event: naming[14]
  • Orbital eccentricity: 0.1092656474535693[15]
  • Absolute magnitude: 8.26[16]
  • Orbital inclination: 7.82 degree[17], 7.817421374916171 degree[18]
  • Orbital period: 1872.115397153214 day[19]
  • Rotation period: 11.173 hour[20]
  • Longitude of ascending node: 251.8217299267735 degree[21]
  • Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.972734514727199 astronomical unit[22]
  • Apoapsis: 3.297552276186438 astronomical unit[23]
  • Periapsis: 2.647916753267959 astronomical unit[24]
  • Argument of periapsis: 104.494884937746 degree[25]
  • Mean anomaly: 11.69660210172924 degree[26]
  • Diameter: 69.946 km[27]
  • Albedo: 0.161[28], 0.198[29]

Why It Matters

179 Klytaemnestra is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . Dictionary of Minor Planet Names (Sixth Revised and Enlarged Edition). wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  2. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17h ago · Kwamikagami · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Astronomic symbol image → Klytaemnestra symbol (fixed width).svg
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    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Astronomic symbol image: Klytaemnestra symbol (fixed width).svg"
  2. 18d ago · Voyager85 · 2026-09-30 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Minor planet center body id → 179
    Semi-major axis of an orbit → {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.972734514727199'}
    Jpl small-body database spk-id → 20000179
    Mean anomaly → {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.69660210172924'}
    + 35 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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