238 Hypatia

Summary

238 Hypatia is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 238 Hypatia is credited with the discovery of Viktor Knorre^[3].
• 238 Hypatia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 238 Hypatia's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Berlin Observatory^[5].
• Hypatia is named after 238 Hypatia^[6].
• 238 Hypatia's follows is recorded as 237 Coelestina^[7].
• 238 Hypatia's followed by is recorded as 239 Adrastea^[8].
• 238 Hypatia's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 238 Hypatia's astronomic symbol image is recorded as Hypatia symbol (fixed width).svg^[10].
• 238 Hypatia's Commons category is recorded as 238 Hypatia^[11].
• 238 Hypatia's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[12].
• 238 Hypatia's provisional designation is recorded as 1947 HA^[13].
• 238 Hypatia's provisional designation is recorded as A884 NA^[14].
• 238 Hypatia's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1884-07-01T00:00:00Z^[15].
• 238 Hypatia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/057z_n^[16].
• 238 Hypatia's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000238^[17].
• 238 Hypatia's asteroid spectral type is recorded as C-type asteroid^[18].
• 238 Hypatia's significant event is recorded as naming^[19].
• 238 Hypatia's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.0917599124827288'}^[20].
• 238 Hypatia's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+8.04'}^[21].
• 238 Hypatia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.408'}^[22].
• 238 Hypatia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.40639711693673'}^[23].
• 238 Hypatia's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1808.514799964204'}^[24].
• 238 Hypatia's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+8.8749'}^[25].
• 238 Hypatia's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+183.7565062195771'}^[26].
• 238 Hypatia's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.905019778115885'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

238 Hypatia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

History and Context

Hypatia is named after 238 Hypatia^[6].

Why It Matters

238 Hypatia ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]