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272 Antonia

main-belt asteroid
Asteroid Q149987

Facts

27 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +26
Follows
271 Penthesilea[4]
Followed by
273 Atropos[5]
Absolute magnitude
10.86[15]
Albedo
0.128[27]
Apoapsis
2.859648258119505 au[22]
Argument of periapsis
69.07127388854543°[24]
Asteroid spectral type
X-type asteroid[11]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14]
Diameter
26.87 km[26]
Discoverer or inventor
Auguste Charlois[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
37.29373304759134°[20]
Mean anomaly
306.7480064902183°[25]
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[6]
Orbital eccentricity
0.02980870253441647[13]
Orbital inclination
4.444°, 4.432156508672613°[16][17]
Orbital period
1,690.17828086913 day[18]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[7]
Periapsis
2.694098279624353 au[23]
Provisional designation
1944 FE, A888 CA[8][9]
Rotation period
3.8548 h[19]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.776873268871929 au[21]
Significant event
naming[12]
Site of astronomical discovery
Nice Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
February 4, 1888[10]
Time of periapsis
2,461,250.514896787 Julian day
🏷️ Also known as
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🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
272Antonia (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
406
Freebase ID
/m/05810j
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000272
Minor Planet Center body ID
272
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Antonia"]

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Asteroid spectral type 1
X-type asteroid
Described by source 1
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Discoverer or inventor 1
Auguste Charlois
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
273 Atropos
Followed by (predecessor) 1
273 Atropos
Follows 1
271 Penthesilea
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
271 Penthesilea
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Nice Observatory
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Summary

272 Antonia is an asteroid[1].

Related Entities

Auguste Charlois

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [25] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  25. [26] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  26. [27] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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