272 Antonia

Summary

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

Key Facts

• 272 Antonia is credited with the discovery of Auguste Charlois^[3].
• 272 Antonia's image is recorded as 272Antonia (Lightcurve Inversion).png^[4].
• 272 Antonia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 272 Antonia's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Nice Observatory^[6].
• 272 Antonia's follows is recorded as 271 Penthesilea^[7].
• 272 Antonia's followed by is recorded as 273 Atropos^[8].
• 272 Antonia's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 272 Antonia's Commons category is recorded as 272 Antonia^[10].
• 272 Antonia's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 272 Antonia's provisional designation is recorded as 1944 FE^[12].
• 272 Antonia's provisional designation is recorded as A888 CA^[13].
• 272 Antonia's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1888-02-04T00:00:00Z^[14].
• 272 Antonia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05810j^[15].
• 272 Antonia's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000272^[16].
• 272 Antonia's asteroid spectral type is recorded as X-type asteroid^[17].
• 272 Antonia's significant event is recorded as naming^[18].
• 272 Antonia's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.02980870253441647'}^[19].
• 272 Antonia's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary^[20].
• 272 Antonia's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+10.86'}^[21].
• 272 Antonia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.444'}^[22].
• 272 Antonia's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+4.432156508672613'}^[23].
• 272 Antonia's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1690.17828086913'}^[24].
• 272 Antonia's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+3.8548'}^[25].
• 272 Antonia's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+37.29373304759134'}^[26].
• 272 Antonia's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.776873268871929'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

272 Antonia's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

Why It Matters

272 Antonia ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (8 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[28] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[29]