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277 Elvira

main-belt asteroid
Asteroid Q150060

Facts

28 properties

Identity

Instance of
asteroid
More facts +27
Follows
276 Adelheid[5]
Followed by
278 Paulina[6]
Absolute magnitude
9.86[15]
Albedo
0.196
Apoapsis
3.149023125786014[22]
Argument of periapsis
135.3866976484023[24]
Asteroid family
Koronis family[12]
Asteroid spectral type
S-type asteroid[11]
Diameter
30.422[26]
Discoverer or inventor
Auguste Charlois[2]
Epoch
November 21, 2025
Longitude of ascending node
230.9964590181166[20]
Mean anomaly
232.7087681836431[25]
Minor planet group
asteroid belt[7]
Named after
Elvira[4]
Orbital eccentricity
0.09156187209411117[14]
Orbital inclination
1.156, 1.166345989688805[16][17]
Orbital period
1789.738850798446[18]
Parent astronomical body
Sun[8]
Periapsis
2.620733415352159[23]
Provisional designation
A888 JA[9]
Rotation period
29.69[19]
Semi-major axis of an orbit
2.884878270569087[21]
Significant event
naming[13]
Site of astronomical discovery
Nice Observatory[3]
Time of discovery or invention
May 3, 1888[10]
Time of periapsis
2461633.3279526327
🏷️ Also known as
en (277) Elvira en 277 Elvira en Elvira ar 277 الفيرا ar ٢٧٧ الفيرا de 277 Elvira el 277 Ελβίρα fa سیارک ۲۷۷ fr 277 Elvira fr Elvira ja エルヴィラ ru (277) Elvira ru (277) Эльвира ru Elvira ru Эльвира uk 277 Ельвіра vi (277) Elvira vi A888 JA vi Elvira zh 小行星277
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
277Elvira (Lightcurve Inversion).png ↗
DAMIT asteroid ID
158
Freebase ID
/m/058153
JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID
20000277
Minor Planet Center body ID
277
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["MinorPlanet", "Elvira"]

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Asteroid family 1
Koronis family
Asteroid spectral type 1
S-type asteroid
Discoverer or inventor 1
Auguste Charlois
Epoch 1
November 21, 2025
Followed by 1
278 Paulina
Followed by (predecessor) 1
278 Paulina
Follows 1
276 Adelheid
Instance of 1
asteroid
Minor planet group 1
asteroid belt
Parent astronomical body 1
Sun
Preceded by (successor) 1
276 Adelheid
Site of astronomical discovery 1
Nice Observatory
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Summary

277 Elvira 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . Minor Planet Center database. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . 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] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . JPL Small-Body Database. Retrieved . ssd.jpl.nasa.gov. Provenance: 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.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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