2 Pallas
large asteroid of the main asteroid belt
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Summary
2 Pallas is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 0.073% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,261 views/month, #3 of 4,107).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Bremen[4]
- Named after: Athena[5], Pallas[6]
- Follows: Ceres[7]
- Followed by: 3 Juno[8]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[9]
- Commons category: 2 Pallas[10]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[11]
- Unicode character: ⚴[12]
- Provisional designation: A802 FA[13]
- Time of discovery or invention: March 28, 1802[14]
- Asteroid spectral type: B-type asteroid[15]
- Asteroid family: Pallas family[16]
- Significant event: naming[17]
- Topic's main category: Category:2 Pallas[18]
- Commons gallery: (2) Pallas[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.2306429787720982[20]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[21], Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947)[22], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[23]
- Absolute magnitude: 4.11[24]
- Orbital inclination: 34.9283268715924 degree[25]
- Density: 3 gram per cubic centimetre[26], 2.89 gram per cubic centimetre[27]
- Mass: 211 exagram[28]
- Orbital period: 1683.839278437529 day[29]
- Rotation period: 7.81 hour[30], 7.8132214 hour[31]
- Longitude of ascending node: 172.8885963396175 degree[32]
Body
Cultural Significance
Things named for 2 Pallas include palladium[33], a chemical element[34] and Pallas family[35], an asteroid family[36].
Why It Matters
2 Pallas has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[37] It is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[38]
Entities named for it include palladium[33], a chemical element[34] and Pallas family[35], an asteroid family[36].