2169 Taiwan
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Summary
2169 Taiwan is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (22 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Purple Mountain Observatory[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Purple Mountain Observatory[4]
- Named after: Taiwan[5]
- Follows: 2168 Swope[6]
- Followed by: 2170 Byelorussia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 2169 Taiwan[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1938 DV1[11], 1964 VP1[12], 1975 BH1[13], 1977 RF8[14], 1979 FG[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 9, 1964[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[17]
- Asteroid family: Astrid family[18]
- Significant event: naming[19]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.05[20], 0.0493194[21], 0.05204840813656783[22]
- Absolute magnitude: 12.5[23], 12.69[24]
- Orbital inclination: 1.52747 degree[25], 1.526232579528801 degree[26]
- Orbital period: 4.66 years[27], 1702.508033382262 day[28]
- Rotation period: 7.252 hour[29]
- Longitude of ascending node: 71.86008 degree[30], 71.85078053137504 degree[31]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.7880257 astronomical unit[32], 2.790361655424758 astronomical unit[33]
- Apoapsis: 2.926 astronomical unit[34], 2.935595537714935 astronomical unit[35]
- Periapsis: 2.6505219 astronomical unit[36], 2.645127773134581 astronomical unit[37]
- Argument of periapsis: 0.03035 degree[38], 359.4579209269968 degree[39]
- Mean anomaly: 242.18048 degree[40], 30.75072970395487 degree[41]
- Diameter: 19.263 km[42]
Why It Matters
2169 Taiwan has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[43] It is known by 25 alternative names across languages and contexts.[44]