234 Barbara

Summary

234 Barbara is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 234 Barbara is credited with the discovery of Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters^[3].
• 234 Barbara's image is recorded as Asteroid Barbara (artist's impression) (eso0904a).jpg^[4].
• 234 Barbara's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 234 Barbara's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Litchfield Observatory^[6].
• Saint Barbara is named after 234 Barbara^[7].
• 234 Barbara's follows is recorded as 233 Asterope^[8].
• 234 Barbara's followed by is recorded as 235 Carolina^[9].
• 234 Barbara's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[10].
• 234 Barbara's Commons category is recorded as 234 Barbara^[11].
• 234 Barbara's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 234 Barbara's provisional designation is recorded as 1942 RL1^[13].
• 234 Barbara's provisional designation is recorded as 1953 RE^[14].
• 234 Barbara's provisional designation is recorded as 1975 XP^[15].
• 234 Barbara's provisional designation is recorded as A883 PA^[16].
• 234 Barbara's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1883-08-12T00:00:00Z^[17].
• 234 Barbara's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/057zyp^[18].
• 234 Barbara's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000234^[19].
• 234 Barbara's asteroid spectral type is recorded as S-type asteroid^[20].
• 234 Barbara's asteroid spectral type is recorded as L-type asteroid^[21].
• 234 Barbara's significant event is recorded as naming^[22].
• 234 Barbara's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.2461141284446203'}^[23].
• 234 Barbara's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[24].
• 234 Barbara's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+9.12'}^[25].
• 234 Barbara's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.352'}^[26].
• 234 Barbara's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+15.38441896835477'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

234 Barbara's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

History and Context

Saint Barbara is named after 234 Barbara^[7].

Why It Matters

234 Barbara ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (9 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 20 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]