208 Lacrimosa

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 208 Lacrimosa is credited with the discovery of Johann Palisa^[3].
• 208 Lacrimosa's image is recorded as 208Lacrimosa (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 208 Lacrimosa's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 208 Lacrimosa's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Pula Observatory^[6].
• Our Lady of Sorrows is named after 208 Lacrimosa^[7].
• 208 Lacrimosa's follows is recorded as Q147330^[8].
• 208 Lacrimosa's followed by is recorded as 209 Dido^[9].
• 208 Lacrimosa's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 208 Lacrimosa's Commons category is recorded as 208 Lacrimosa^[11].
• 208 Lacrimosa's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 208 Lacrimosa's provisional designation is recorded as A879 UB^[13].
• 208 Lacrimosa's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1879-10-21T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 208 Lacrimosa's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/057sln^[15].
• 208 Lacrimosa's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000208^[16].
• 208 Lacrimosa's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[17].
• 208 Lacrimosa's asteroid family is recorded as Koronis family^[18].
• 208 Lacrimosa's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 208 Lacrimosa's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.01127450414052986'}^[20].
• 208 Lacrimosa's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.26'}^[21].
• 208 Lacrimosa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.751'}^[22].
• 208 Lacrimosa's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+1.743940834460547'}^[23].
• 208 Lacrimosa's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1797.655800786458'}^[24].
• 208 Lacrimosa's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+14.085'}^[25].
• 208 Lacrimosa's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.140401468656257'}^[26].
• 208 Lacrimosa's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.893379559845059'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

208 Lacrimosa's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Our Lady of Sorrows is named after 208 Lacrimosa^[7].

Why It Matters

208 Lacrimosa ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]