28805 Föhring
asteroid
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Summary
28805 Föhring is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Lowell Observatory Near-Earth-Object Search[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Anderson Mesa Station[4]
- Named after: Dora Föhring[5]
- Follows: (28804) 2000 HC81[6]
- Followed by: (28806) 2000 HH87[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[9]
- Provisional designation: 2000 HY85[10]
- Time of discovery or invention: April 30, 2000[11]
- Significant event: naming[12]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.18[13], 0.1824790[14], 0.1824207557750486[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 14.6[16], 14.76[17]
- Orbital inclination: 5.66619 degree[18], 5.672204706562002 degree[19]
- Orbital period: 3.79 years[20], 1383.143832120838 day[21]
- Longitude of ascending node: 143.85670 degree[22], 143.7387983467921 degree[23]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.4297014 astronomical unit[24], 2.429475991808781 astronomical unit[25]
- Apoapsis: 2.873 astronomical unit[26], 2.872662838371875 astronomical unit[27]
- Periapsis: 1.9863319 astronomical unit[28], 1.986289145245687 astronomical unit[29]
- Argument of periapsis: 251.28671 degree[30], 251.7577369369982 degree[31]
- Mean anomaly: 199.97057 degree[32], 52.09398297775654 degree[33]
- Diameter: 3.515 km[34]
- Albedo: 0.299[35]
- Epoch: May 5, 2025[36]
- Time of periapsis: 2460600.3514687605 Julian day[37]
Why It Matters
28805 Föhring has Wikipedia articles in 6 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[38] It is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[39]