21900 Orus

Summary

21900 Orus is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 21900 Orus is credited with the discovery of Takao Kobayashi^[3].
• 21900 Orus's image is recorded as 21900 Orus Hubble.jpg^[4].
• 21900 Orus's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 21900 Orus's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Ōizumi Observatory^[6].
• Orus is named after 21900 Orus^[7].
• 21900 Orus's follows is recorded as (21899) 1999 VU8^[8].
• 21900 Orus's followed by is recorded as (21901) 1999 VZ11^[9].
• 21900 Orus's minor planet group is recorded as Jupiter trojan^[10].
• 21900 Orus's minor planet group is recorded as Greek camp trojan asteroid^[11].
• 21900 Orus's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Orus symbol (fixed width).svg^[12].
• 21900 Orus's Commons category is recorded as 21900 Orus^[13].
• 21900 Orus's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[14].
• 21900 Orus's provisional designation is recorded as 1998 VD18^[15].
• 21900 Orus's provisional designation is recorded as 1999 VQ10^[16].
• 21900 Orus's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1999-11-09T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 21900 Orus's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20021900^[18].
• 21900 Orus's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 21900 Orus's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.036'}^[20].
• 21900 Orus's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0362998'}^[21].
• 21900 Orus's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.03698886029464378'}^[22].
• 21900 Orus's Lagrangian point is recorded as L4-Jupiter-Sun^[23].
• 21900 Orus's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10'}^[24].
• 21900 Orus's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.03'}^[25].
• 21900 Orus's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+8.46845'}^[26].
• 21900 Orus's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+8.46858002407338'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

21900 Orus's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Orus is named after 21900 Orus^[7].

Why It Matters

21900 Orus ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]