2023 BU

Summary

2023 BU is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 2023 BU is credited with the discovery of Gennadij Borisov^[3].
• 2023 BU's video is recorded as Animation of 2023 BU around Sun.gif^[4].
• 2023 BU's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 2023 BU's instance of is recorded as near-Earth object^[6].
• 2023 BU's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Nauchnyi^[7].
• 2023 BU's minor planet group is recorded as Apollo asteroid^[8].
• 2023 BU's Commons category is recorded as 2023 BU^[9].
• 2023 BU's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[10].
• 2023 BU's provisional designation is recorded as 2023 BU^[11].
• 2023 BU's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2023-01-21T00:00:00Z^[12].
• 2023 BU's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 54339759^[13].
• 2023 BU's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.110337851512424'}^[14].
• 2023 BU's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+29.4'}^[15].
• 2023 BU's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+29.69'}^[16].
• 2023 BU's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+3.731926443495587'}^[17].
• 2023 BU's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+425.1554753743345'}^[18].
• 2023 BU's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+0.021583'}^[19].
• 2023 BU's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+125.1107514453783'}^[20].
• 2023 BU's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.106537746036985'}^[21].
• 2023 BU's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.230'}^[22].
• 2023 BU's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+1.228630743552107'}^[23].
• 2023 BU's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+0.9844447485218641'}^[24].
• 2023 BU's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+356.0854801237284'}^[25].
• 2023 BU's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+155.5547988785253'}^[26].
• 2023 BU's Google Knowledge Graph ID is recorded as /g/11trnm8g_0^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

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

Why It Matters

2023 BU ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (17 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]