2 Pallas

Summary

2 Pallas is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 0.073% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (572 views/month, #3 of 4,107).^[2]

Key Facts

• 2 Pallas is credited with the discovery of Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers^[3].
• 2 Pallas's image is recorded as Potw1749a Pallas crop.png^[4].
• 2 Pallas's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 2 Pallas's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Bremen^[6].
• Athena is named after 2 Pallas^[7].
• Pallas is named after 2 Pallas^[8].
• 2 Pallas's follows is recorded as Ceres^[9].
• 2 Pallas's followed by is recorded as 3 Juno^[10].
• 2 Pallas's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[11].
• 2 Pallas's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 246302147^[12].
• 2 Pallas's GND ID is recorded as 4742217-8^[13].
• 2 Pallas's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85102677^[14].
• 2 Pallas's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Pallas symbol (fixed width).svg^[15].
• 2 Pallas's Commons category is recorded as 2 Pallas^[16].
• 2 Pallas's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[17].
• 2 Pallas's Unicode character is recorded as ⚴^[18].
• 2 Pallas's provisional designation is recorded as A802 FA^[19].
• 2 Pallas's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1802-03-28T00:00:00Z^[20].
• 2 Pallas's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0cq9d^[21].
• 2 Pallas's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000002^[22].
• 2 Pallas's asteroid spectral type is recorded as B-type asteroid^[23].
• 2 Pallas's asteroid family is recorded as Pallas family^[24].
• 2 Pallas's significant event is recorded as naming^[25].
• 2 Pallas's topic's main category is recorded as Category:2 Pallas^[26].
• 2 Pallas's Commons gallery is recorded as (2) Pallas^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

2 Pallas's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Things named after include Athena^[7], a goddess^[28] and Pallas^[8], a Greek deity^[29].

Cultural Significance

Things named for 2 Pallas include palladium^[30], a chemical element^[31] and Pallas family^[32], an asteroid family^[33].

Why It Matters

2 Pallas ranks in the top 0.073% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (572 views/month, #3 of 4,107).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[34] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[35]

Entities named for it include palladium^[30], a chemical element^[31] and Pallas family^[32], an asteroid family^[33].