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1918 Aiguillon

asteroid
Thing asteroid Q145891

Facts

26 properties
Instance of
asteroid
Follows
1917 Cuyo[5]
Followed by
1919 Clemence[6]
Absolute magnitude
11.7, 11.99[15][16]
Albedo
0.062
Apoapsis
3.612 astronomical unit, 3.616581982788851 astronomical unit[25]
Argument of periapsis
245.34021 degree, 245.5825770370641 degree
Diameter
19.536 km
Discoverer or inventor
Guy Soulié[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02_v2
Longitude of ascending node
195.08268 degree, 195.0393350091473 degree[21][22]
Mean anomaly
249.43815 degree, 304.4672886294726 degree
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Aiguillon[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.13 (0.13–0.13, n=3)[12][13][14]
Orbital inclination
9.19419 degree, 9.196657467813205 degree[17][18]
Orbital period
5.69 year, 2,078.372961234537 day[19][20]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.7649354 astronomical unit, 2.757926454168115 astronomical unit
Provisional designation
1968 UA[9]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
3.1883977 astronomical unit, 3.187254218478483 astronomical unit[23][24]
Significant event
naming[11]
Site of astronomical discovery
Bordeaux Observatory[3]
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Time of discovery or invention
October 19, 1968[10]
Time of periapsis
2,461,321.104682713 Julian day
🏷️ Also known as
en Aiguillon de (1918) Aiguillon el 1918 Αιγκυγιόν fa سیارک ۱۹۱۸ ja エギュイヨン ru (1918) 1968 UA ru 1968 UA uk 1918 Егійон zh 小行星1918
🔖 Identifiers · 3
Freebase ID
/m/03y0n__
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20001918
Minor Planet Center body ID
1918

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Summary

1918 Aiguillon is an asteroid[1].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . minorplanetcenter.net. minorplanetcenter.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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