2032 Ethel
asteroid
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Summary
2032 Ethel is an asteroid[1]. It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Tamara Smirnova[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Crimean Astrophysical Observatory[4]
- Named after: Ethel Lilian Voynich[5]
- Follows: 2031 BAM[6]
- Followed by: 2033 Basilea[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 1952 DU[10], 1960 WM[11], 1965 UG1[12], 1970 OH[13], 1971 UD3[14]
- Time of discovery or invention: July 30, 1970[15]
- Significant event: naming[16]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.13[17], 0.1260916[18], 0.125800197402521[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 11.4[20], 11.49[21]
- Orbital inclination: 1.50821 degree[22], 1.506338597981352 degree[23]
- Orbital period: 5.38 years[24], 1965.87977222459 day[25]
- Longitude of ascending node: 30.13881 degree[26], 30.08797116958633 degree[27]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 3.0685794 astronomical unit[28], 3.071182926714753 astronomical unit[29]
- Apoapsis: 3.456 astronomical unit[30], 3.457538345154722 astronomical unit[31]
- Periapsis: 2.6816573 astronomical unit[32], 2.684827508274785 astronomical unit[33]
- Argument of periapsis: 296.27056 degree[34], 297.5360532972032 degree[35]
- Mean anomaly: 19.36481 degree[36], 97.90768565917911 degree[37]
- Diameter: 36.007 km[38]
- Albedo: 0.034[39]
- Epoch: November 21, 2025[40]
- Time of periapsis: 2460465.8479478257 Julian day[41]
Why It Matters
2032 Ethel is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]