2018 LA

Summary

2018 LA is an Earth-crossing asteroid^[1]. It draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (earth_crossing_asteroid category, ranking #4 of 9).^[2]

Key Facts

• 2018 LA is credited with the discovery of Mount Lemmon Survey^[3].
• 2018 LA's image is recorded as 2018 LA-orbit.png^[4].
• 2018 LA's instance of is recorded as former entity^[5].
• 2018 LA's minor planet group is recorded as Apollo asteroid^[6].
• 2018 LA's Commons category is recorded as 2018 LA^[7].
• 2018 LA's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 2018 LA's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2018-06-02T00:00:00Z^[9].
• 2018 LA's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 3825058^[10].
• 2018 LA's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.4318612059805853'}^[11].
• 2018 LA's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+30.55'}^[12].
• 2018 LA's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.297409951890678'}^[13].
• 2018 LA's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+589.8136592751157'}^[14].
• 2018 LA's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+71.86960533671854'}^[15].
• 2018 LA's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.376398739057521'}^[16].
• 2018 LA's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.97081195841706'}^[17].
• 2018 LA's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.7819855196979832'}^[18].
• 2018 LA's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+256.0486906916353'}^[19].
• 2018 LA's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+326.7297817374431'}^[20].
• 2018 LA's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11f651v097^[21].
• 2018 LA's Minor Planet Center body ID is recorded as 2018 LA^[22].
• 2018 LA's epoch is recorded as June 2, 2018^[23].
• 2018 LA's time of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q14267', 'amount': '+2458326.00896994'}^[24].

Body

Designation and Status

2018 LA's instance of is recorded as former entity^[5].

Why It Matters

2018 LA draws 25 Wikipedia views per month (earth_crossing_asteroid category, ranking #4 of 9).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[25] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[26]