188 Menippe

Summary

188 Menippe is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 188 Menippe is credited with the discovery of Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters^[3].
• 188 Menippe's image is recorded as 188Menippe (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 188 Menippe's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 188 Menippe's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Litchfield Observatory^[6].
• Menippe is named after 188 Menippe^[7].
• 188 Menippe's follows is recorded as 187 Lamberta^[8].
• 188 Menippe's followed by is recorded as 189 Phthia^[9].
• 188 Menippe's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 188 Menippe's Commons category is recorded as 188 Menippe^[11].
• 188 Menippe's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 188 Menippe's provisional designation is recorded as 1948 WQ^[13].
• 188 Menippe's provisional designation is recorded as A897 QA^[14].
• 188 Menippe's provisional designation is recorded as A878 MA^[15].
• 188 Menippe's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1878-06-18T00:00:00Z^[16].
• 188 Menippe's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03bjtc^[17].
• 188 Menippe's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000188^[18].
• 188 Menippe's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[19].
• 188 Menippe's significant event is recorded as naming^[20].
• 188 Menippe's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1786435225745463'}^[21].
• 188 Menippe's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.29'}^[22].
• 188 Menippe's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.73'}^[23].
• 188 Menippe's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+11.70223609585591'}^[24].
• 188 Menippe's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1676.822097703473'}^[25].
• 188 Menippe's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+11.98'}^[26].
• 188 Menippe's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+240.8149421013224'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

188 Menippe's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Menippe is named after 188 Menippe^[7].

Why It Matters

188 Menippe ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 16 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]