298 Baptistina

Summary

298 Baptistina is an asteroid^[1]. It ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).^[2]

Key Facts

• 298 Baptistina is credited with the discovery of Auguste Charlois^[3].
• 298 Baptistina's image is recorded as 298Bap-LB1-mag15.jpg^[4].
• 298 Baptistina's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].
• 298 Baptistina's site of astronomical discovery is recorded as Nice Observatory^[6].
• 298 Baptistina's follows is recorded as 297 Caecilia^[7].
• 298 Baptistina's followed by is recorded as 299 Thora^[8].
• 298 Baptistina's minor planet group is recorded as asteroid belt^[9].
• 298 Baptistina's Commons category is recorded as 298 Baptistina^[10].
• 298 Baptistina's parent astronomical body is recorded as Sun^[11].
• 298 Baptistina's provisional designation is recorded as A890 RB^[12].
• 298 Baptistina's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1890-09-09T00:00:00Z^[13].
• 298 Baptistina's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0581m9^[14].
• 298 Baptistina's JPL Small-Body Database SPK-ID is recorded as 20000298^[15].
• 298 Baptistina's asteroid family is recorded as Baptistina family^[16].
• 298 Baptistina's significant event is recorded as naming^[17].
• 298 Baptistina's orbital eccentricity is recorded as {'amount': '+0.09513326540816947'}^[18].
• 298 Baptistina's absolute magnitude is recorded as {'amount': '+11.21'}^[19].
• 298 Baptistina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.285'}^[20].
• 298 Baptistina's orbital inclination is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+6.279760380251505'}^[21].
• 298 Baptistina's orbital period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q573', 'amount': '+1244.391898215943'}^[22].
• 298 Baptistina's rotation period is recorded as {'unit': 'Q25235', 'amount': '+16.23'}^[23].
• 298 Baptistina's longitude of ascending node is recorded as {'unit': 'Q28390', 'amount': '+8.112399524867067'}^[24].
• 298 Baptistina's semi-major axis of an orbit is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.264153318521365'}^[25].
• 298 Baptistina's apoapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.479549617097045'}^[26].
• 298 Baptistina's periapsis is recorded as {'unit': 'Q1811', 'amount': '+2.048757019945684'}^[27].

Body

Designation and Status

298 Baptistina's instance of is recorded as asteroid^[5].

Cultural Significance

Things named for 298 Baptistina include Baptistina family^[28], an asteroid family^[29].

Why It Matters

298 Baptistina ranks in the top 1% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (24 views/month).^[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[30] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[31]

Entities named for it include Baptistina family^[28], an asteroid family^[29].