191 Kolga
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
191 Kolga is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (35 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Litchfield Observatory[4]
- Named after: Kólga[5]
- Follows: 190 Ismene[6]
- Followed by: 192 Nausikaa[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 191 Kolga[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1949 YP[11], A878 SB[12]
- Time of discovery or invention: September 30, 1878[13]
- Asteroid spectral type: X-type asteroid[14], C-type asteroid[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.08702249678873249[17]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.09[18]
- Orbital inclination: 11.51 degree[19], 11.52126784859711 degree[20]
- Orbital period: 1800.575495026879 day[21]
- Rotation period: 17.604 hour[22]
- Longitude of ascending node: 159.1659683250445 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.896511601218913 astronomical unit[24]
- Apoapsis: 3.148573272734512 astronomical unit[25]
- Periapsis: 2.644449929703313 astronomical unit[26]
- Argument of periapsis: 226.6448679719872 degree[27]
- Mean anomaly: 286.8120143907896 degree[28]
- Diameter: 94.536 km[29]
- Albedo: 0.041[30], 0.046[31]
Why It Matters
191 Kolga has Wikipedia articles in 20 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]