313 Chaldaea
main-belt asteroid
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Summary
313 Chaldaea is an asteroid[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of asteroid entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (16 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Johann Palisa[3]
- Site of astronomical discovery: Vienna Observatory[4]
- Named after: Chaldea[5]
- Follows: 312 Pierretta[6]
- Followed by: 314 Rosalia[7]
- Minor planet group: asteroid belt[8]
- Commons category: 313 Chaldaea[9]
- Parent astronomical body: Sun[10]
- Provisional designation: A891 QB[11]
- Time of discovery or invention: August 30, 1891[12]
- Asteroid spectral type: C-type asteroid[13]
- Significant event: naming[14]
- Orbital eccentricity: 0.1808337863329593[15]
- Absolute magnitude: 9.18[16]
- Orbital inclination: 11.646 degree[17], 11.64374581915606 degree[18]
- Orbital period: 1337.430529153557 day[19]
- Rotation period: 8.392 hour[20]
- Longitude of ascending node: 176.532699824671 degree[21]
- Semi-major axis of an orbit: 2.375646789991656 astronomical unit[22]
- Apoapsis: 2.805243994015587 astronomical unit[23]
- Periapsis: 1.946049585967724 astronomical unit[24]
- Argument of periapsis: 315.7342325335236 degree[25]
- Mean anomaly: 98.13747716871217 degree[26]
- Diameter: 71.183 km[27]
- Albedo: 0.044[28]
Why It Matters
313 Chaldaea has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]