187514 Tainan

Summary

187514 Tainan is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 187514 Tainan is credited with the discovery of Quanzhi Ye^[3].
• 187514 Tainan is credited with the discovery of Chi-Sheng Lin^[4].
• 187514 Tainan's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 187514 Tainan's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Lulin Observatory^[6].
• Tainan is named after 187514 Tainan^[7].
• 187514 Tainan's follows is recorded as (187513) 2006 TG91^[8].
• 187514 Tainan's followed by is recorded as (187515) 2006 TL97^[9].
• 187514 Tainan's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 187514 Tainan's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 187514 Tainan's provisional designation is recorded as 2001 QS71^[12].
• 187514 Tainan's provisional designation is recorded as 2006 TM94^[13].
• 187514 Tainan's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2006-10-15T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 187514 Tainan's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20187514^[15].
• 187514 Tainan's significant event is recorded as naming^[16].
• 187514 Tainan's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.22'}^[17].
• 187514 Tainan's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2201191059867787'}^[18].
• 187514 Tainan's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.9'}^[19].
• 187514 Tainan's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.94'}^[20].
• 187514 Tainan's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+14.4'}^[21].
• 187514 Tainan's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+14.43518029812562'}^[22].
• 187514 Tainan's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1609.798814450379'}^[23].
• 187514 Tainan's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+211.0'}^[24].
• 187514 Tainan's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+210.9245758531489'}^[25].
• 187514 Tainan's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.688120817862721'}^[26].
• 187514 Tainan's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.279827569075112'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

187514 Tainan's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Tainan is named after 187514 Tainan^[7].

Why It Matters

187514 Tainan ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]