198971 Whitacre

Summary

198971 Whitacre is an asteroid^[1].

Key Facts

• 198971 Whitacre is credited with the discovery of David J. Tholen^[2].
• 198971 Whitacre's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].
• 198971 Whitacre's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Mauna Kea Observatories^[4].
• 198971 Whitacre's follows is recorded as (198970) 2005 UP508^[5].
• 198971 Whitacre's followed by is recorded as (198972) 2005 UB527^[6].
• 198971 Whitacre's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[7].
• 198971 Whitacre's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 198971 Whitacre's provisional designation is recorded as 2005 UU512^[9].
• 198971 Whitacre's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2005-10-31T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 198971 Whitacre's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20198971^[11].
• 198971 Whitacre's significant event is recorded as naming^[12].
• 198971 Whitacre's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+0.132699246272077'}^[13].
• 198971 Whitacre's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+16.47'}^[14].
• 198971 Whitacre's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+1.363743852243479'}^[15].
• 198971 Whitacre's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q573', 'amount': '+1955.570379326929'}^[16].
• 198971 Whitacre's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+25.18168275600557'}^[17].
• 198971 Whitacre's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.060436332044945'}^[18].
• 198971 Whitacre's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+3.46655392657099'}^[19].
• 198971 Whitacre's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1811', 'amount': '+2.654318737518901'}^[20].
• 198971 Whitacre's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+247.8544878430335'}^[21].
• 198971 Whitacre's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q28390', 'amount': '+157.1936186523793'}^[22].
• 198971 Whitacre's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 198971^[23].
• 198971 Whitacre's epoch is recorded as November 21, 2025^[24].
• 198971 Whitacre's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q14267', 'amount': '+2460146.6022654003'}^[25].

Body

Designation and Status

198971 Whitacre's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[3].