235 Carolina
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
235 Carolina 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: Johann Palisa[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Vienna Observatory[4]
- Named after: Caroline Island[5]
- Follows: 234 Barbara[6]
- Followed by: 236 Honoria[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 235 Carolina[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: 1934 GY[11], 1939 GN[12], 1956 VK[13], A909 GJ[14], A883 WA[15]
- Time of discovery or invention: November 28, 1883[16]
- Asteroid spectral type: S-type asteroid[17]
- Significant event: naming[18]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.06013689988789367[19]
- Absolute magnitude: 8.98[20]
- Orbital inclination: 9.026 degree[21], 9.029523655822478 degree[22]
- Orbital period: 1786.733374515216 day[23]
- Rotation period: 17.61 hour[24]
- Longitude of ascending node: 65.98776215620256 degree[25]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.88164768315125 astronomical unit[26]
- Apoapsis: 3.054941041385098 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 2.708354324917403 astronomical unit[28]
- Argument of periapsis: 208.0132202106182 degree[29]
- Mean anomaly: 144.4526844683104 degree[30]
- Diameter: 57.517 km[31]
- Albedo: 0.177[32]
Why It Matters
235 Carolina has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] It is known by 27 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]