246504 Hualien

Summary

246504 Hualien is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 246504 Hualien is credited with the discovery of Chi-Sheng Lin^[3].
• 246504 Hualien's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].
• 246504 Hualien's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Lulin Observatory^[5].
• 246504 Hualien's minor planet group is recorded as outer asteroid belt^[6].
• 246504 Hualien's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[7].
• 246504 Hualien's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[8].
• 246504 Hualien's provisional designation is recorded as 2008 BG16^[9].
• 246504 Hualien's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +2008-01-28T00:00:00Z^[10].
• 246504 Hualien's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20246504^[11].
• 246504 Hualien's significant event is recorded as naming^[12].
• 246504 Hualien's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.10'}^[13].
• 246504 Hualien's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.1071424808344347'}^[14].
• 246504 Hualien's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.1'}^[15].
• 246504 Hualien's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+15.22'}^[16].
• 246504 Hualien's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.8'}^[17].
• 246504 Hualien's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+12.74965852651624'}^[18].
• 246504 Hualien's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+2087.157970677255'}^[19].
• 246504 Hualien's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+311.9'}^[20].
• 246504 Hualien's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+311.3240253828281'}^[21].
• 246504 Hualien's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.196229306352437'}^[22].
• 246504 Hualien's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+3.538681243550761'}^[23].
• 246504 Hualien's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.853777369154113'}^[24].
• 246504 Hualien's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+315.7'}^[25].
• 246504 Hualien's argument of periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+317.744618660924'}^[26].
• 246504 Hualien's mean anomaly is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+339.3'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

246504 Hualien's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[4].

Why It Matters

246504 Hualien ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28]