20461 Dioretsa

Summary

20461 Dioretsa is a Damocloid asteroid^[1]. It draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (damocloid_asteroid category, ranking #5 of 6).^[2]

Key Facts

• 20461 Dioretsa is credited with the discovery of Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research^[3].
• 20461 Dioretsa's instance of is recorded as Damocloid asteroid^[4].
• 20461 Dioretsa's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Experimental Test Site^[5].
• asteroid is named after 20461 Dioretsa^[6].
• 20461 Dioretsa's follows is recorded as 20460 Robwhiteley^[7].
• 20461 Dioretsa's followed by is recorded as (20462) 1999 LZ31^[8].
• 20461 Dioretsa's minor planet group is recorded as centaur^[9].
• 20461 Dioretsa's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Dioretsa symbol.svg^[10].
• 20461 Dioretsa's Commons category is recorded as 20461 Dioretsa^[11].
• 20461 Dioretsa's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 20461 Dioretsa's provisional designation is recorded as 1999 LD31^[13].
• 20461 Dioretsa's type of orbit is recorded as retrograde orbit^[14].
• 20461 Dioretsa's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1999-06-08T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 20461 Dioretsa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/08j6wv^[16].
• 20461 Dioretsa's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20020461^[17].
• 20461 Dioretsa's significant event is recorded as naming^[18].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.8995114'}^[19].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.9013874698947077'}^[20].
• 20461 Dioretsa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.8'}^[21].
• 20461 Dioretsa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+13.92'}^[22].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+160.42821'}^[23].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+160.4215234562235'}^[24].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q577', 'amount': '+117'}^[25].
• 20461 Dioretsa's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+42368.24818127738'}^[26].
• 20461 Dioretsa's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+297.77355'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

20461 Dioretsa's instance of is recorded as Damocloid asteroid^[4].

History and Context

asteroid is named after 20461 Dioretsa^[6].

Why It Matters

20461 Dioretsa draws 9 Wikipedia views per month (damocloid_asteroid category, ranking #5 of 6).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 6 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]