1991 BA

Summary

1991 BA is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 1991 BA is credited with the discovery of Spacewatch^[3].
• 1991 BA's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 1991 BA's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[5].
• 1991 BA's instance of is recorded as near-Earth asteroid^[6].
• 1991 BA's minor planet group is recorded as Apollo asteroid^[7].
• 1991 BA's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 1991 BA's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1991-01-18T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 1991 BA's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0brfcx^[10].
• 1991 BA's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 3092104^[11].
• 1991 BA's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6730'}^[12].
• 1991 BA's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.6732249052774221'}^[13].
• 1991 BA's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+28.6'}^[14].
• 1991 BA's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.937990056842139'}^[15].
• 1991 BA's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1182.85385909718'}^[16].
• 1991 BA's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+118.8801793516516'}^[17].
• 1991 BA's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.188879108287361'}^[18].
• 1991 BA's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.662487038627849'}^[19].
• 1991 BA's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.7152711779468744'}^[20].
• 1991 BA's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+70.68790435853117'}^[21].
• 1991 BA's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+346.8356776079431'}^[22].
• 1991 BA's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 1991 BA^[23].
• 1991 BA's epoch is recorded as January 18, 1991^[24].
• 1991 BA's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2448317.754082066'}^[25].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include asteroid^[4], near-Earth object^[5], and near-Earth asteroid^[6].

Why It Matters

1991 BA ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 9 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[26]